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THE JEWISH NEWS

Jews Cited
As World
War Heroes

CongressPrayer
By Dr. Goldstein

April 24. 1942

Women Achieve 65 Per Cent
of Goal at Halfway Mark

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Highest Soviet Award Goes
to Prof. Parnass; Stalin
Prize Winners Listed

KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—Prof. Ja-
cob Parnass, formerly on the
staff of the University of Lwow
in" Poland and now a member of
the Ukrainian Academy of
Science, has been awarded a prize
of 200,000 rubles, which is the
highest in the Soviet Union, it
was announced here this week.
The Jewish professor was given
the prize in recognition of his re-
search work in biological Chem-
istry, the announcement said.

Mizrachi to Hear
Rabbi Goodman

All Divisions Submit Excellent Reports As Annual Allied
Jewish Campaign Enters Home Stretch;
Activities Are Listed

Marked progress in efforts to raise Detroit's quota of

Officers of Detroit Chapter To $985,000 in the 1942 Allied Jewish Campaign was report-
ed this week as all divisions—the general, women's and
Be Installed May 4

youth's groups—mobilized their efforts for a successful

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Rabbi Isadore Goodman,. vice-1 mercy fund-raising drive..
president of the Mizrachi Fed-
The Women's Division reported on Monday a total
eration of Great Britain and Ire-
,-of $61,867 towards the goal of
land and region minister for
$91,000. This sum is 65 per cent
north and northeast London, will
of the quota and is an especially
address a public meeting spon-
encouraging result in view of the
sored by the Mizrachi Organiza-
fact that it represents coverage
tion of Detroit on Monday, May
of only 49 per cent of prospects'
slips.
4, at 8:30 P. M., at Yeshivah Beth
Yehudah, Dexter and Cortland.
He will talk on the "Moral Issues Plan Conference April 30 at WOMEN'S MEETINGS
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
The Women's Division will
of the War" and the "Position of
Shaarey Zedek to Elect
continue to hold report luncheon
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president Anglo Jewry in War Torn
SOVIETS PRAISE JEWISH
Delegates
meetings on Mondays and Fri-
of the Synagogue Council of Europe."
GIRL AS ACE RIFLE SHOT
days.
America and Rabbi of Congrega-
A Jewess named Kaganyeva is tion Bnai Jeshurun, New York, Dr. Goodman, one of the out-
Governor Green of Illinois,
This Friday, April 24, at the
the latest heroine of the Soviet delivered the opening prayer at ,standing religious. leaders of the Mayor Kelly of Chicago, and Sir meeting at the Jewish Commu-
press, which has, since the begin- the session of the House of Rep- British Empire is also well known
Norman Angell, Nobel Prize Win- nity Center, Woodward and Hol-
ning of the war, singled out Jews resentatives in Washington Tues- for his activities in the United
brook, the important United
and Jewesses for praise for their day morning, April 21. States, having been attached to ner, are among the distinguished Jewish Appeal film, "The Pro-
the
Institutional
Synagogue, representatives who will partici-
heroism against the Nazis. The
mise," will be shown. This dra-
He was received by Rev. Dr. New York City, for seven years,
woman, a member of a rifle de-
pate in the War Emergency Ses- matic "film of Jewish survival"
tachment on the Russian-Ger- James Shera Montgomery, chap- and Congregation Beth El of sion of the American Jewish depicts graphically the work
man front, has been proclaimed lain of the House of Representa- Indianapolis for two years. He
achieved by the Joint Distribu-
the finest rifle shot in her regi- tives, and Congressman Sol also held a chair in semitics at Congress at the Sherman Hotel
Butler University, Indianapolis, in Chicago on May 16-17-18.
ment. She had distinguished her- Bloom of New York.
and for two years he broadcasted
self first when she was a member
A feature of this session will
from Indianapolis every Tuesday be a dinner symposium on the
of an anti-air-raid Civil Defense
evening
on
ethical
subjects.
group.
New World Of.cler, in which these
There will be no charge for representatives of public opin-
admission to his lecture and the ion will participate.
50 JEWS WIN STALIN PRIZE
The credo of the 1942 Allied
public is invited. Following the
The Chicago Council of the
KUIBYSHEV (JPS)—The star-
Jewish Campaign, incorporat-
address
by
Dr.
Goodman,
there
American
Jewish
Congress
will
in Prize, highest award in Sov-
ed in "A Message — From
iet Russia for outstanding work .CLEVELAND — A Bnai Brith will be installation of newly- act as host to the convention and
Yourself to Yourself"—will be
has
arranged
a
reception
to
the
in science, literature, art and in- Youth House for Civilian War elected officers of Detroit Miz-
found on Page 14 of this issue
delegates
for
Saturday
after-
dustrialproduction, has been Service, which is serving as a rachi. Refreshments will be
of The Jewish News. .
noon, May 16, in the form of an
awarded to 138 Russians, 50 of center for all community war ef- served.
Oneg Shabbat. Mrs. Avis Shul-
whom are Jews.
forts, was formally dedicated
man is chairman of the com- tion Committee, United Pales-
The winners include: Sergei here last week by Aleph Zadik
tine Appeal and National Refu-
mittee arranging the reception.
Bernstein, Abram Yoffe, Leonid Aleph, Bnai Brith youth organi- "
gee Service. It presents gripping
A
conference
of
Detroit
af-
Mandelst-imm Jakov Parnas and zation,. as the first of several to .
scenes of Jews under the yoke
filiates with the Jewish Con-
Sergei Rubenstein, scientists; be opened in major cities. The
of Hitlerism, trying to rise above
gress
and
representatives
of
all
Michael Feinberg, Boris Rybak. 11,000 square feet in the two-story
the waves of oppression. It shows
local
-organizations
has
been
Lev Samoilev, Michael Margol- structure are being used as ciVil- Detroit A I I i e d Campaign
the work being achieved in
called
by
the
Detroit
chapter
in, Michael Gorelik, M. Magid- ian defense headquarters, a Sal-
bringing them aid and presents
for
Thursday
evening,
April
30,
Officers
Informed
of
son, Lev Fink, Solomon Kanfer, vage for Victory Depot, a war
at the Shaarey Zedek. All or- an interesting picture of con-
Josef Jakub and Boris Frumkin, bond and stamp sales center, for
s Action by J. D. C.
ganizations are called upon to structive efforts in Palestine. It
inventors. Frumkin created a air raid wardens' meetings, first
send their delegates at that also shows how refugees are aid-
new design for a warship and aid classes, Red Cross workrooms
The gangplank is still up - for
time and to participate in se- ed in this country.
nineteen other Jews helped de- and a recreation room for visiting refugees seeking to escape from
Eleonora Mendelssohn„ noted
lecting
the Detroit delegation
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soldiers and sailors.
Europe with some 1,200 persons
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to the Chicago conference.
to be evacuated by the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee between
now and May 15, it was disclosed
this week by Joseph C. Hyman,
executive vice-chairman of the
Coughhlin Admits "Sole Responsibility and Control" of J. D. C., in a message to Detroit
campaign officers of the Allied Desperate Appeal 'for Help Sent Through Jerusalem in
Royal Oak Paper Against Which Government
Jewish Campaign. Announcing
Behalf of Nazi-Held Poland
Has Acted
the sailing of two Portuguese
• JERUSALEM (JTA) — An appeal to Gen. Sikorski,
Action taken by Postmaster General Walker to ban vessels for the Western Hemi-
within the next month, the Polish Premier, and to central Jewish organizations
Coughlin's anti-Semitic "Social Justice" from the mails sphere
Mr. Hyman said that this would
was followed this week by an additional announcement bring to close to 5,000 the num- in the United States and England was cabled from here
by Attorney General Francis Biddle that all necessary ber of refugees emigrated from this week in behalf of the Jews in Nazi-held Poland, ask-
steps will be taken to prevent distribution of the magazine !Europe since Pearl Harbor with ing for "immediate action to save hundreds of thousands
outside the mails.
of starving Jews in the ghettos from extinction."
i J. D. C. help.
At the same time, Father
The appeal was issued as a
Coughlin . has admitted his "so -
result of a desperate call for aid
r esponsibility and control over
which reached here from the
"Social Justice".
Warsaw ghetto, stating that tin-
precedented hunger is raging
it is believed that Father
among the Jews in occupied Pol-
Coughlin will be indicted and that
and and that Jewish leaders in
there will be complete investiga-
4>
America and England must take
tion of his finances.
Jewish
enterprises
complain
that
immediate action to see that
Clerics Notified By Police that ''Strongest Disciplinary
Added complications in the
they cannot manage these enter- food and medicaments reach the
case of Father Coughlin and
prises without the help of the Jews in Poland from the out-
Action" Will Be Taken Against Them If They Do Not
"Social Justice" set in when
former Jewish owners.
side world.
Discontinue Practice

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BAN ON "SOCIAL JUSTICE"
LAUDED BY PRESS OF U. S.

RED CROSS PREPARED
TO HELP POLISH JEWS

l; German Priests in Slovakia Bapti ze
Jews to Save Them from Deportation

his aide and former editor of

FINLAND'S JEWS NOT

RED CROSS TO HELP
his magazine, Louis B. Ward,
AFFECTED BY NAZIS
The Palestine representation
died in a Syracuse railroad
A Jewish report reaching here of Polish Jewry, which trans-
ZURICH
A — G e r m a n poicy of the Slovak government,
station of a heart attack. Ward
station
this week from Finland states mitted the appeal to the Jewish
was an unsuccessful candidate priests in Slovakia were notified but they are also defiling the that
on the whole the position organizations in America, to the
for the United States Senate that "strongest disciplinary ac- honor of the German master of the approximately
2,000 Jew-
Polish government in London
six years ago. lie was opposed tion" will be taken against them race.
ish
inhabitants
of
that
country and to the Board of Jewish Dep-
by all liberal elements for his if they continue to baptize Slo-
has not deteriorated in spite of uties in England, added that ae-
PRO-JEWISH SYMPATHY
association with Coughlin.
vakian Jews, it is reported in the
the anti-Jewish campaign con- cording to its own information,
' Social Justice" this week in- Karparthen-Deutsche Post reach- The hunting down of Jews by ducted there by new publications the International Red Cross in
the
vited American Jewish leaders to ing here this week.
e Slovak police throughout the started with financial support Geneva has expressed its will-
visit Royal Oak for a spiritual The Slovakian Nazi newspaper country, is provoking pro-Jewish from Germany. The scarcity of ingness to assist in any rescue.
conference with the Jew-baiting discloses that German churches sympathy not only among the food, however, is being exploited activities which may be started
Detroit priest. in Sovakia are accepting Jews as clergy, but even among certain by anti-Semitic agitators in a in America and England.
'Would it not be a strange members in order to save them Slovak officials, and is resented campaign against Jewish small The desperate call for food
re-
event?" the Church-denounced from being deported to Nazi-0e- by the majority of the Slovak traders, which is meeting with ceived here reveals that the Nazi
magazine asked its estimated cupied Eastern territories. Citing people. The Grenzbote, a Nazi considerable response among cer- administration has reduced the
200,000 readers, if they all met a number of cases where Ger- newspaper published in Brati- thin elements of the Finnish. pop- bread rations for Jews
at the Shrine of the Little Flow- man pastors have baptized Jews slava, reports that many Slovak ulation. ghettos to eighty grams in the
a day
er, to discuss "ways and means of and admitted them into member- are embittered over the removal The Jewish community
in which is less than one-quarter
preserving the light of religion in ship of the German Protestant of the Jews. One government of- Sweden, under the leadership of of a pound. But even this meager
a world of tempests which is so parish in Sovakia, the Nazi news- ficial in Eastern Slovakia was Chief Rabbi Ehrenpreis, has tak- ration is not distributed. The
bent upon extinguishing the paper threatens these pastors arrested for hiding local Jews, en over most of the Jewish cul- Jewish public kitchens in the
torch?" with "consequences." These min- the paper discloses. It reveals tural work for the Scandinavian ghettos have been compelled to
In the same issue "Social Jus- isters, the paper says, are not that even the officials who have countries which was formerly di- drastically reduce their
rations
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ony sabotaging • the anti-Jewish, been appointed to "Aryanize" rected from Copenhagen.
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