October 3, 1941

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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NAZISM

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fire in a crowded theater nor
should it give men the power to
incite citizens to the persecution
and eventual murder of each
other in the face of an advanc-
ing foe."
During her lengthy address
covering every aspect of the
international situation, especially
with reference to Britain, Miss
Thompson branded Scribners-
Commentator a "Nazi monthly."
She referred to the Herald, pub-
lished in Lake Geneva, Wis., as
"nothing more or less than a
veiled Stuermer."

Arthur C. Beck%r Is
In the Council Race

better traffic conditions in Detroit. Jewish Frontier
His campaign slogan is "Drive
Dance on Nov. 2
Safe and Save a Life."
Mr. Becker has the background
of experience and education which
The Detroit Council of the
qualifies him for the Council. At League for Labor Palestine an-
present he is working as execu-
tive secretary of his father's nounces its annual Jewish Fron-
printing company.
tier dance, to be held at the
Detroit Leland Hotel on Sun-
Rappaport and Jackier Be- day evening, Nov. 2.
come Members of Fried- This event is the highlight of
man, Meyers & Keys the League's social functions for
Law Firm
this season.
The law firm of Friedman,
Mel Curry's Yacht Club Or-
Meyers & Keys announces that chestra will furnish the music,
Sylvan Rapaport and Joseph H.
Jackier have become members of while a Palestinian program de-
picting life and music of the
the firm.
national homeland will be the
Although in the end she didn't feature number of the evening.
win the national championship,
Morris Lieberman is general
pretty Janet Younker—daughter
of broker Ira Younker; one of chairman of the dance, with
New York's Jewish social-work Mrs. A. W. Sanders, Alex Schrei-
leaders—became a name to reckon er and Mrs. Esther Mendelsohn
with in golf when she scored a as active participants of the
sensational triumph over the title arrangements committee.
Information and tickets may
holder of the past two years,
Miss Betty Jameson. Watch out be obtained by calling Louis
Rosen, To. 7-8411.
for her.

Arthur C. Becker, candidate for
theaters, cafes, restaurants and
Detroit Common Council, has a
railway stations.
heritage of political history be-
These laws, although in exist-
hind him to live up to. His father,
ence before the Magen David
Harry Becker, was active in poli-
order, had been more or less ig-
tics for many years and was
nored, but are now again being
nominated as alderman way back
enforced as the yellow insignia
in the old days.
has made Jews almost demon-
Harry Becker is the owner of
stratively conspicuous.
the Becker Brothers Printing
Slovakia Forces Badge
Company and has been in business
Slovakia, the Nazi puppet state,
for 30, years. There aren't many
fell in line with the Magen Da-
Detroiters who do not know Harry.
vid edict. All Jews above the age American Anti-Semitism Has He lives at 1937 Virginia Park.
of six are now forced to wear
Following in his father's foot-
Foreign Origin, Says
the yellow badge. The law does
steps, Arthur Becker his been in
Compton
not apply to converts to Chris-
BOSTON. (JPS) — The anti- politics for six years. Two years
tianity or to Jewish forced la- Semitic propaganda that has ago he ran for State Representa-
borers and their families.
been flooding America since tive and gave an excellent show-
Opposition to the anti-Jewish 1935 "is definitely the result of ing. In all these six years there
order grew in intensity not only propaganda of foreign origin" has never been a dishonest mark
in Germany, where many of the in the opinion of Dr. Arthur against his record.
Mr. Becker graduated from
inhabitants showed open sympa- H. Compton, Nobel Prize winning
thy to the Jews, but throughout physicist and co-chairman of the Northern High and then attended
Nazi-occupied Europe. The pro- National Conference of Chris- Detroit Institute of Technology.
At D. I. T. he took Business
test movement is particularly
and Jews.
strong in Belgium, where many tians
His views, written to challenge Psychology
Law. is to
His main and
aim Political
if elected
Belgians wear the Magen David the series of Jew-baiting articles
out of sympathy for the Jews. by Albert Jay Nock, appear in
The Belgian underground anti- the October issue of the Atlan-
Nazi press reported numerous tic Monthly, which declares that
public demonstrations against all not since Charles Marshall's fam-
Nazi measures, but mainly ous open letter to Alfred Smith
against the Magen David order. has it been flooded with so many
At the same time the Nazi letters of comment.
press and radio gloated over the
latest anti-Semitic humiliation.
"President Roosevelt, Premier Congressional Frank Envelopes
Found on Anti-Warmongers
Sikorski and all the other Allied
WASHINGTON. (JPS)—Great
statesmen have sent the Jews
Rosh Hashonah greetings. Our loads of franked envelopes of
Rosh Hashonah greeting is the Senators and Representatives
yellow Magen David," jibed the known for anti-Semitic or isola-
Stettin radio station, in a spe- tionist speeches, usually both,
cial broadcast in "honor" of the were found in the offices of
introductionof the yellow Magen camouflaged anti-British organi-
David. "By this sign the Jews zations in Washington, it was
will be recognized everywhere as revealed by Special Attorney-
our greatest enemies," continued General Maloney to a District
of Columbia grand jury investi-
the radio broadcaster.
The Nazis also hailed all the gating Nazi activities in Amer-
anti-Jewish measures of the Hit- ica.
The Fight for Freedom Com-
ler regime and said that these
ANN SHERIDAN in
anti-Semitic orders represented mittee has charged in the past
NAVY BLUES (Warner
that
franked
envelopes
were
a "great victory of Christianity."
Bros.' current release)
The United Press Berlin cor- freely made available to anti-
makes a big hit with
Semitic
organizations
for
the
respondent reported that Jews
the Navy.
free
mailing
of
their
libelous
failing to adhere to the rigid
Chesterfield makes a
literature.
Those
whose
envelopes
regulations for the wearing of
big hit with the Navy
were
found
on
the
premises
of
the yellow badge, whether in
and with smokers every-
shirt sleeves or clad in their the alleged anti-war organiza-
where with their Milder
tions
included
Senator
Clark,
coats, whether walking in the
Better Taste.
head
of
the
movie
investigating
street or merely opening the
sub
-
committee,
Senator
Nye,
door, would be sentenced to the
Congressman Sweeney of Ohio
concentration camp.
Berlin's inhabitants, according and former Congressman Thor-
to the Associated Press corre- kelson of Montana, all of whom
spondent there, believe that in have been mentioner frequently
the United States all German na- in connection with anti-Semitism.
tionals must now wear a swastika Mr. Maloney charged that
to distinguish them in the same "known German agents" had
manner as Germany's Jews must financed the "make Europe pay
war debts" and "island for war
wear the Magen David.
debts" committees on whose
premises the free envelopes were
German Troubles in Occupied
seized.
Areas Continue
GENEVA. (JPS) — German Chicago Tribune and Socialist
edicts against Jews in Czechia
Party Join in Repudiating
and Slovakia suggest that the
Lindbergh
conquerors are having a difficult
WASHINGTON. (JPS) — The
time in subjugating the beaten full authority of the America
peoples of these areas. The Swiss First Committee was placed un-
press reports that the Slovak qualifiedly behind the anti-
Government has decided to exile Semitic but insisted that "inter-
15,000 Jews from Bratislava to Semitic speech made by Charles
concentration camps near Sered. A. Lindbergh at Des Moines in
The remaining 5,5000 Jews are a statement issued from Chicago
to be placed in a ghetto in Brati- by the Cotimittee, which denied
slava. This is the "solution" to that the former flier was anti-
the Slovakian-Jewish problem.
ventionists" had injected the ra-
There have been many cases cial issue.
of food poisoning in the ghettos
American
responsible
That
of Lodz, Cracow and other Po- public opinion did not share
lish ghettos. Jewish doctors, con- America First's white-wash of
ducting an investigation, found its blonde hero was reflected in
traces of poison in the flour for the repudiation of Lindbergh by
bread which the Nazis have been -two such diametrically opposite
delivering to ghettos. When the groups as the Socialist Party
Jewish communities ventured to and the Chicago Tribune. An-
complain to the Nazi authori- nroval or rejection of the Lind-
ties, the latter attributed the bergh Des Moines address be-
poison to the ersatz articles came the touchstone of the
used in the food; but the Jews American spirit in the eyes of
are convinced that the poisoning the nation.
was a deliberate plot on the Bromfield Calls Movie Inquiry
part of the Nazis.
"Sinister"
mokers everywhere know you can
New York. (JPS) — Louis
Dorothy Thompson Wants Racial Bromfield, one of America's
travel a long way and never find another
Agitation Barred by Law
great novelists, a Christian, sees
NEW YORK. (JPS)—Dorothy "sinister undercurrents" in the
cigarette that can match Chesterfield for a
Thompson, famous woman col- Senatorial sub-committee probe
of
the
movie
industry,
he
wrote
umnist whose status in American
Milder Cooler Better Taste.
life was amply revealed by an to the New York Times in a let-
overflow meeting at Carnegie ter to the editor. He declared
It's Chesterfield's Right Combination
Hall which greeted her on her that "the 'investigation' is in
the
best
Nazi
manner.
At
the
return from England, urged that
of the world's best cigarette tobaccos that
racial agitation be barred by moment when the Nazis were
beginning to acquire power, but
wins the approval of smokers all over the
law in the United States.
Reviewing the efforts made to had not yet become strong
country. Let the Navy's choice be your
confuse the American public enough to reveal their open con-
mind in recent months, Miss tempt for all fairness and le-
choice...make your next pack Chesterfield.
Thompson said: "The race issue gality of procedure, this kind of
is being introduced into th e de 'investigation,' dubiously legal
in the e and conducted by a 'packed'
bate on foreign poliy
exact Nazi manner. Do you want committee, was a classic means
to prevent race riots and race of procedure. Both Nazis and
EVERYWHERE YOU GO
persecutions? Then stop agita- Fascists set up committees at a
wholesale
rate
to
do
away
with
tion to racial persecution and
stop it by law. Free speech does elements, individuals and philoso- Copyright 1941. LicCrti i MU NI ToluCCO CO.
not give men the right to cry phies which stood in their way."

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