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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, June 12, 1942

Mussolini Rescinds Order
of Yellow Badges for Jews

At 85 He Aids Late Reports Assure Raising
The War Effort of $885,000 in Allied Drive

Danger of Serious Rift With Vatican Balks Dictator's Plan; Samuel Blatnikoff Defies Age Volunteer Workers Urged to Follow Up Outstanding Pros-
and Works Diligently
War Emergency Transforms Needed Jews Into
pect Slips; Division Ratings Reported by
for the Red Cross
"Honorary Aryans"
Campaign Directors

By DAVID .COLIN

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Jews in Italy have been saved
from wearing the yellow Mogen Davids, now worn by
most of their co-religionists throughout Axis-dominated
Europe, as a result of Mussolini's fear that an order of this
effect would precipitate a serious rift with the Vatican,
I can now disclose.

When Mussolini returned to
Rome after his last conference
with Hitler on May 1, he sum-
moned his chief of piolice, Senise,
and the head of his Bureau on
Racial Policies and requested
them to order all Jews in the
country to wear yellow badges.
The chief of police informed Il
Duce that such an order would be

David Colin, who was the
Rome correspondent of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
returned home last week on
the Drottningholm after being
interne d for five months in
Italy.

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Julius Caesar and Conte Cavour.
Pugliesi, who designed practically
every vessel in the Italian fleet,
already has succeeded in refloat-
ing the Caesar and is now work-
ing on the Cavour.
Another "honorary Aryan" is
Angelo Sacerdoti, designer of the
pride of the Italian merchant
fleet, Conte di Savaoi, and other
merchant ships. He is now in
charge of merchant ship con-
struction with an office in the
ministry of marines.

Beriow Heads
Marshall Lodge

extremely inadvisable as it would
arouse the opposition of the Vat-
Walter Berlow will be installed
ican. Mussolini, therefore, aban- as president of Marshall Lodge
doned the idea.
of Bnai Brith on
Tuesday e v e n-
JEWS DO FORCED LABOR
ing. The cere-
At this conference, however, it
mony will be
was decided that Italian Jews
held in conjunc-
must be utilized for the war ef-
tion with the
fort. The following week an order
Business and
was issued mobilizing all Jews
Professional
18
in Italy between the ages of
Auxiliary at the
and 55 for forced labor. Four
Jewish Com-
hundred Jewish doctors and 300
munity Center.
W.
Berlow
Jewish engineers, who were ex-
Other officers
empted from this order, also will who will be installed are:
be called soon to service on the
Sol Rosenman and David Ros-
home front.
In spite,, of the generally re- en, vice-presidents; Saul Kling,
pressive policies of the Italian recording secretary; Saul Her-
government as regards the Jews, man, corresponding secretary;
ewish communities still are op- William Chatman, treasurer;
erating in Italy, although greatly Samuel Bank, assistant treasur-
handicapped. Their chief task_ at er; Dr. Albert Prussin, monitor;
present is caring for the thous- Joe Weiss, assistant monitor; Irv-
ands of refugees who have sought ing Gerger, guardian; Max Shiff,
comparative shelter in Italy from warden; Frank Gagda, Morton
Becheck and Joseph C. Glazer,
the intolerable conditions in the
Nazi state of Croatia, which was trustees.
carved out of Yugoslavia. An
estimated 2,800 Jews are reported
to have crossed the frontier into
Dalmatia and northern Italy in
the last year. Nearly all slipped
through the Italian lines at great
risk. while many others were
caught and turned back.

Samuel Blatnikoff wants to
help win the war.
But he is 85 years old and it
is kind of hard for him to get
around.
Grandpa Blatnikoff, however,
is not the dozing kind of man.
He has made up his mind to be

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Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewsh
Welfare Federation of Detroit and of the Allied Jewish
Campaign, in a statement in which he made public the
latest reports submitted in solicitations for the 1942 drive,
declared that volunteer workers are finishing up their
job in a creditable manner and that the estimated final

Weizmann Views
On Moscow Radio

MOSCOW, (JTA)—The Mos-
cow radio, in a broadcast
directed to the Jews of Poland,
this week gave a summary of
the opinions recently expressed
by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, presi-
dent of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, as regards Jewish
rights in the post-war world. It
also quoted a number of reso-
lutions on the stabilization of the
Jewish position after the war,
adopted within the past few
weeks by Jewish organizations
in England and America. This
was the first time that a Soviet
SAMUEL BLATNIKOFF
has presented the
broadcast
of help in the war effort, and he views of Dr. Weizmann.
devotes most of his time working
for the Red Cross.
He turns out beautifully made
garments.. Mrs. Nettie Raskin,
cl airman of the Red Cross unit
of the Jewish War Veterans, re-
ports that as soon as he finishes
one bundle of material he clam-
ors for more. Right now he is
engaged in sewing comfort bags
for our boys in the service.
Mr. Blatnikoff resides at 2020
Elmhurst Ave., where this photo-
graph was taken for The Jewish
News by our staff photographer,
Jack Rubin. He makes his home
with his daughter, Mrs. C. Horo-
witz.
This Red Cross worker of 85
has 15 grandchildren — two of
whom are in the U. S. armed
forces — and seven great-grand
children.

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total of $885,000 is now practically
assured.
Miss Esther R. Prussian, exec-
utive director of the Detroit
Service Group, supplementing
Mr. Sobeloff's statement, said that
a large number of prospect slips
has not been reported upon, and
urged that workers cover them
at once and make their final re-
ports. Miss Prussian points out
in her appeal that the offices of
the Allied Jewish Campaign have
been moved to the headquarters
of the Federation, 51 W. Warren
Ave., telephone COlumbia 1600.
DIVISION RATINGS
In addition to the Women's
and Junior Divisions, which were
the first to oversubscribe their
quotas, other division ratings in
the drive are as follows:
Division A, Mercantile, headed
by Israel Himelhoch and Louis
Robinson, has reported up to now
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of incredible persecution by the
Ustacia, the Croatian storm-
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Ante Pavelitch. Jews were mur-
dered, their homes pillaged, and
women and girls were violated
by marauding Ustacia bands.
Italy has adopted the Nazi
technique of transforming Jews
whose services are sorely needed
in the war effort into "honorary
yans." After the British raid
Tarranta. which left a good
Part of the Italian fleet crippled,
Mussolini called u'on the Jewish
'dmiral Umberto Pugliesi, to at-
tempt to salvage the battleships

Lease-Lend for
Palestine Urged
By Rep. Dingell

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Lease-
lend ' assistance to Palestine by
the United States as a vital link
in the resistance to Axis aggres-
sion was urged this week by
-presentative John D. Dingell
Of Michigan at the annual
luncheon of the Pioneer Women's
Organization for Palestine at
Hotel Astor.
Mr. Dingell also expressed
support of the project for a
Jewish Army of Palestinian and
tateless Jews. He characterized
the aspiration for a Jewish
homeland in Palestine as part of
the movement for an enduring
peace and a new democratic
order.

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mann, president of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine and the
World Zionist Organization, at a
dinner Wednesday, June 10, at
the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York.
Many distinguished figures
sponsored the dinner in honor of
the great Jewish statesman and
scientist, including Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Viscount Halifax,
Wendell Willkie, Donald Nelson,
Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
Mayor LaGuardia, Thomas Mann,
Professor Albert Einstein, Arturo
Toscanini, Sigrid Undet, Dorothy
Thompson, etc. The complete list
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who" of the- most outstanding
men and women of our day.
The dinner was the occasion
for a public expression of appre-

ciation of his leadership in the
reconstruction of the Jewish
homeland in Palestine and of his
notable contributions to science,
particularly the important dis-
coveries through which he aided
the Allies in the first World War
and the United Nations in the
present conflict.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman
of the dinner committee, pre-
sided and the speakers included
Dorothy -Thompson. Jan Mas-
aryk, Foreign Minister of the
Czechoslovak Goverrun e n t in
Exile; Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, na-
tional chairman of the United
Palestine Appeal; Henry Monsky,
president of Bnai Brith, and
Maurice Wertheim, president of
the American Jewish Committee.
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ed Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wineman,
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Srere,
Abraham Cooper, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Jinsburg, Mr. and Mrs.
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