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THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

May 1, 1942

13;000 Jews Have Been Put to Death
in Lwow by Nazi Army of Occupation

Tragic Fate Revealed from Kuibyshev; Poles, Jews to Fight
Ares During Raids on Reich While Germans
Stay in Shelters

KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—Approximately 13,000 Jews
have been executed by the Nazis in Lwow since the capital
of Eastern Galicia was occupied by the German army, it
is reported in advices from Lwow published this week in
Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party.

Pravda also discloses that the
prize of 200,000 rubles, highest
Soviet award, given last week
to the Jewish professor Jacob
Parnas of the Lwow University,
was given to him for his discov-
ery of a blood substitute which
was successfully used on wound-
ed Russian soldiers in place of
blood transfusions.

1,500 Die of Starvation

STOCKHOLM (JTA) — The
German authorities intend to
make the Polish city of Lublin
entirely "judenrein" and plan to
transfer all the residents of the
two ghettos there to a new seg-
regated section of the city, the
Berlin correspondent of the
Swedish daily Aftonbladet re-
ports this week.
Reports reaching here from
Poland this week disclose that
],500 Jews have died from star-
vation in Radom since the be-
ginning of this year.

800 Polish Jews Reach Iran

GENEVA (JTA) — About 800
Jews are among the several thou-
sand Polish refugees who arrived
in Iran from Soviet Russia, ac-
cording to reliable information
reaching Jewish organizations
here this week. More Polish
Jews continue to arrive in Te-
heran daily from Soviet terri-
tory, hoping to be admitted even-
tually into Palestine, -the-report
says.
The Agudas Israel office here
has succeeded in establishing
contact with Senator Jacob
Trockenheim of Warsaw who is
now reported safe "somewhere
in Nazi-occupied tctrritory."

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Ohio Catholic
Paper Silent
on Challenge

Fails To Claim $1,000 Offered
For Proof of Draft Dodging
Charge

CINCINNATI (JTA)—A prize
of $1,000 offered four weeks ago
by the American Israelite, local
Anglo-Jewish weekly, to the Cin-
cinnati Catholic Telegraph-Reg-
ister if the latter publication
could prove its allegations that
refugees were dodging the draft,
is still unclaimed, it is revealed
in an editorial appearing in the
Israelite this week.
"Neither proof nor retraction
and apology have been forthcom-
ing to date", the editorial says.
The Telegraph-Register, official
weekly publication of the Cin-
cinnati Archdiocese and one of
a chain of Catholic weeklies with
headquarters in Denver, charged
that refugees who have come to
America on visitors' visas and
ybeen allowed to stay here
because of the war conditions,
"are unwilling to fight to pre-
serve that haven of refuge to
which they have fled."
Figures secured from the Cin-
cinnati Committee for Refugees,
which explode the Register's al-
legation, show that in all of Cin-

See REFUGEES on Page 15

Labor Leaders Demand Full
Justice to Palestine Jews

Annulment of Chamberlain White Paper Also Asked By
Histadruth; Recruiting of 10,000 Held Primary Aim;
Will Speed War Industries

LONDON (JPS - Palcor) —
Challenging their own Govern-
ment to reverse its policy af-
fecting the Jewish National
Home in Palestine, two import-
ant British Labor leaders as-
sured a mass meeting at Toyn-
bee Hall in Whitechapel that
they would do all in their
power to transform the Man-
date for Palestine into an
instrument to aid instead of
hampering Jewish development.
Lord Wedgwood addressed a
crowded meeting called by the
Friends of Jewish Labor Pales-
tine, made up of Jewish trades
union leaders. Saying that
"Zionism straightened the back
of the Jews," Lord Wedgwood
referred to the postwar period
and insisted that the Jews must
have a proper home in Pales-
tine, with unlimited immigra-
tion, self - government with
justice for all, thus enabling
them to build up a Jewish
civilization of world-wide signi-
ficance."
As Secretary of the British
Labor Party, James Middleton
said that "the last war gave new
meaning to Palestine, which
was previously no more than a
Bible picture."
Among those sending messages
to the conference was Harold
Laski, noted Labor Party writer
and spokesman.

Essential To War Effort
TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)

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The revocation of the Chamber-
lain White Paper on Palestine
in required not only for the
sake of the Jews but is essen-

tial for the prosecution of the
war in this part of the world, it

was affirmed in the political

See PALESTINE on Page 15

resolution that culminated the
fifth convention of the Hista-
druth, Jewish Federation of
Labor.
The war effort and the re-
cruitment of an additional 10,-
000 Palestine - Jews for the

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World News at a Glance

(Condeosed From Cables of the Jewish Telegraphic

Agency)

Jewish Youths
Prevent Attack
I In Montreal

SLOVAKIA—

From Zurich comes the report of serious clashes between the ,
Slovak police and the local non-Jewish population over the deporta-
tion of Jews to Nazi-held Eastern territories, said to have
taken place last week in Humenne and Michalovce, two Slovakian

towns. One policeman was killed in the skirmish in Humenne. In-
formation reaching the Czechoslovaak government in London, how-

ever, reveals that the clashes were really an expression of the state
of high tension existing in the Nazi puppet-state.

MONTREAL (JTA) — An
anti-Semitic and anti-conscrip-
tion demonstration in the
Jewish section of this city was
prevented when the anti-con-
scription anti-Jewish students
were informed that hundreds
of young Jews were massed in
front of the Y.M.H.A. head-
quarters waiting to give them
a "warm reception".
Three of the eight anti-
Semitic students who partici-
pated in the anti-conscription
riots last month culniinating in
anti - Jewish demonstrations
and the smashing of windows
in Jewish stores, were acquit-
ted as a result of lack of evi-
dence against them. A fourth,
who pleaded guilty, was sen-
tenced to pay the court costs.
The trial of the remaining four
is still to take place.

HUNGARY—

Hungarian Jews, variously estimated at from 800,000 to 1,250,000,
including those in the former Rumanian territory, were forced this
week with a threat of mass expulsion, described by Premier Nicolas

von Kaallay as the "ultimate solution of the Hungafian-Jewish
problem", a Zurich report states. Jewish doctors in Hungary have
been forbidden to practice in hospitals and Jews have been barred
from selling any tobacco products, or from being employed as wait-
ers in restaurants and hotels, or as desk clerks in hotels, in a series
of orders issued by the Hungarian authorities in Budapest, it was
reported in the Donau Zeitung.

HOLLAND—

The Vrij Nederland, organ of the Dutch government in London,
reports that the Nazi authorities have started evacuation of all Jews

from the coastal areas in Holland to the Amsterdam ghetto. This is
interpreted by the paper as an 'indication of the Nazis' fear of pos-
sible landings by Allied forces on Dutch shores. The Central Jewish
Committee in Amsterdam was notified by the German administra-
tion to start registering all able-bodied Jews, so that they might be
transported to Germany for forced labor, it was reported here by
a Dutch student who succeeded in escaping from Holland.

YUGOSLAVIA—

The first eye-witness of how Serbian guerrilla fighters are trying
to aid the Nazi-persecuted Jewish population in occupied Yugo-
slavia was given in Montevideo by Emilio Ferreti, Uruguayan consul
in Split, Yugoslavia, who reached home on a Spanish steamer. Mr.
Ferreti said that he himself had witnessed mass-killings by German
and Italian soldiers of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia.

Pinski Attacks
Russian Relief
as 'Communist'

TURKEY—
All 12 passengers of the refugee vessel Euxenia which was
ordered from Turkish waters back to Rumania last month, were
rescued when the cutter foundered in the Aegean Sea off the Turk-
ish coast. according to information from Istanbul received this week
Campaigns to Aid Soviet, by the office of the United Rumanian Jews of America in New York.
The rescued refugees, all Jews, landed at a small Turkish port
Great Britain, Have Only
southwest of Izmir, where they remain at present, the information
Propaganda Value
stated. Another cutter, the Michai, which reached Istanbul from
Rumania carrying Jewish refugees, is still in Turkish waters.
NEW YORK (JPS) — As the
Russian War Relief announced ENGLAND—
Jewish post-war reconstruction problems have been discussed
the launching on May 7 of its
1942 campaign for $6,000,000 for by Jewish leaders in London with Sir William Jowitt, British Min-
ister for Reconstruction, it was revealed this week in a report by
the purchase of medical and sur- the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British
gical supplies, with Thomas J. Jews. The report also revealed that the British authoritiies are dis-
Watson, International Business playing sympathetic understanding of the Jewish demand for' per-
Machines president, as toastmas- mission to send food and medicine to the starving Jews in Nazi-held
ter at the opening dinner here, Poland.

David Pinski, 70-year-old novel-
ist and president of the Jewish
National Workers' Alliance, de-
nounced the formation of a Jew-
ish section of Russian War Re-
lief.
In an article written for the
Jewish Morning Journal, he in-
sisted that the work which the
Jewish section was doing was
undertaken to give Communists
prestige among the Jewish mass-
es and urged that efforts for
Jews in Russia be concentrated
in the hands of the Joint Distri-
bution Committee.
Announcing that the Jewish
National Workers' Alliance had
instructed its branches not to

BULGARIA—

More than 8,000 inventories of Jewish property already have
been submitted to the government by Jewish owners, under the
recently adopted Bulgarian law providing for surrender of such
property to the state, it is reported in the Sofia newspaper "Utro".

The Bulgarian authorities have drawn up a plan for allotting the
confiscated Jewish property to important governmental institutions.

CUBA—

A complete ban on further immigration of refugees from Europe
to Cuba was decreed by President Batista in an order made public
in Havana this week. The order follows the President's decree legal-
izing the status of the refugees already in this country and granting

the right to apply for Cuban citizenship even to those who entered
the country on tourist or transit visas.

BRAZIL—

Five airplanes were contributed this week by Brazilian Jewry
to the air force of Brazil on the occasion of the national defense
campaign started here.

See PINSKI on Page 15

REFREE RESCUE IN WAR CONTINUES WITH U. J. A. AID I

MEXICO—

Mexico's immigration laws have been tightened to forbid the
entry of any foreigner not a native of the American continent, with
such exceptions as may be allowed personally by President Manuel
Avila Camacho.

PALESTINE—

Five thousand boys and girls from the Jewish schools of Tel Aviv
left their classrooms this week to go into the fields. Headed by their
teachers, the young students will spend their vacations growing food

to aid the Allied war effort . . . The Jewish Agency for Palestine
has established contact with the Soviet ambassadors in Washington,
London and Ankara, it was reported here this week by Moshe
Shertok, head of the Agency's political department, addressing a
convention of the Histadruth, Palestine Federation of Labor, attended
by about 400 delegates, representing 126,000 members. Shertok re-
vealed that he had made an unsuccessful effort to secure a permit to
go to Russia

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TO BE ASSURED OF A SEAT AT MEMORIAL DINNER
FOR SIR NORMAN ANGELL„ MAIL THIS
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COUPON WITH YOUR CHECK

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Mr. Fred M. Butzel, Chairman
1942 Allied Jewish Campaign
1401 Hotel Statler
Detroit, Michigan

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SOMEWHERE ON THE HIGH SEAS—These refugees, shown on ship-
board escaping from the Old World to freedom,' are a few of the thousands

still being rescued by the constituent agencies of the United Jewish Appeal
for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine. The Joint Distribution Com-
mittee has enabled 5,000 to emigrate to the Western Hemisphere since Pearl
Harbor; in the first three months of 1942 alone 3,000 reached Palestine where
the United Palestine Appeal is helping them to join in the defense and up-
building of the Jewish homeland; while more than 2,000 who have arrived in
the United States so far this year are being aided by the Natioual Refugee
Service in becoming good Americana.

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Please reserve
place(s) (at $2.50 per cover) for
the Opening Dinner of the Allied Jewish Campaign in the Hotel
Statler Ballroom on Sunday evening, May 10,-1942 at 7 o'clock,
with Sir Norman Angell, as the guest of honor and principal
speaker.

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