Friday, July ID. 1942
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Two
World Wide News at a Glance
FRANCE—
Vichy Premier Pierre Laval and his Ambassadoi
to Paris, Ferdinand de Brinon, are personally deriv-
ing substantial profit from the liquidation of Jewish
businesses in France, the Lisbon correspondent of the
French London daily, France, charged this week.
An order prohibiting Polish Jews in France to par-
ticipate in the economic life of the country has been
Issued by the Laval Government. The order provides
for the deportation to Poland of all Jewish artisans
and laborers of Polish citizenship who are found to
be working unless they are holders of a special labor
permit. No Polish Jew, under this order, is permitted
to continue any kind of business in France.
The establishment of "reserved" hotels and cafes for
Jews in Paris and their exclusion from other such
establishments was demanded by the anti-Semitic Parti
Populaire of Jacques Doriot, the Paris radio reports.
Many Jews have been sent to conceptration camps
for failure to wear the Yellow Mogen Dfrvid, for adding
various inscriptions to the yellow badge or for wear-
ing the French tri-color with the star.
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BESSARABIA-
The expulsion of the last Jews from the Kishinev dis-
trict in Rumania is reported in the Donau Zeitung, Nazi
newspaper for the Balkan countries. The last group of
Jews was deported from the Kishinev area on June 13.
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POLAND—
A new method of Nazi mass-slaughter of Jews, by
driving them into tank traps and machine-gunning
them there now is reported. More than 6,000 Jews
were executed by this method in the town of Czyzew
alone. Dr. Ignacy Schwartzbart, Jewish member of
the Polish National Council, reported at conferences
in London.
The German press reports that the entire Jewish
quarter in the city of Lublin. with the exception of a
few houses, has been demolished by the local occupa-
tional authorities.
Two Polish policemen have been executed by the
Gestapo in Cracow for befriending Jews confined in
the ghetto there, according to information reaching
Polish circles here this week. The policemen were
ordered to accompany Gstapo men who went to the
ghetto to seize all available clothing which could be
used by the German army.
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PALESTINE—
Mrs. Moshe Shertok, wife of the head of the political
department of the Jewish Agency, left for Teheran this
week to take charge of relief and welfare work for the
Jewish refugees from Poland who have been trans-
ferred there from Russia on their way to the Near East.
The directorate of the Jewish National Fund this
week decided to name a section of its land in Pal-
estine after Dr. Israel Goldstein of New York in
recognition of the latter's services as president of the
Jewish National Fund in America.
_The opinion that the present military situation in
E g ypt does not constitute any direct danger for Pal-
estine was expressed here this week by Moshe Sher-
tok, head of the political department of the Jewish
Journalists in Jerusalem. Shertok based his opinion
on the fact that "increased British reinforcements will
halt the enemy."
There is a marked increase in the number of Jewish
volunteers at the recruiting offices all over Palestine.
Reports reaching Jerusalem from the Egyptian front
state that among German prisoners captured in the
last few days' fighting were two men who claimed
that they were Jews, and that the Nazis have recently
started to conscript Jev•s.
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SWEDEN—
A delegation of the Swedish Red Cross, which is
leaving for the Baltic countries this week to investi-
gates the medical needs of the population there, was
forced to give a pledge to the German authorities that
it will not deliver any food or medicaments to the
Jews in the ghettos. The delegation was also required
to promi7e that none of its members will make any
statements about the Jewish position in the Baltic
lands when they return to Sweden.
ALBANIA—
The entire Jewish population in Italian-occupied
Albania, numbering about 200 families of Albanian
Jews and approximately 100 families of Jewish refu-
gees from the Reich who were permitted to settle
in the country in 1939, was ordered into a ghetto in
Tirana.
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BULGARIA—
A law closely resembling the anti-Jewish Nurem-
berg Laws of Nazi Germany was issued last week in
Bulgaria. The law forbids Jews in Bulgaria to inter-
marry with non-Jews. It bars them from holding
any positions in government, municipal or other pub-
lic institutions. It requires them to use Jewish names
only, and stipulates that no Jew may become depend-
ent upon the community.• •
CZECHOSLOVAKIA—
Jews in the Czech Protectorate who lose the yellow
and black Mogen David which every Jew must wear,
are henceforth to be punished by having to surrender
their egg ration coupon for a new badge, the German-
controlled Protectorate press announces in publishing
a series of anti-Jewish restrictions.
A pledge that Jews will enjoy all rights in post-
war Czechoslovakio was made in London by Hubert
Ripka, minister of state in the Czechoslovakian Foreign
Minstry, in a message sent to the Federation of Czech-
oslovakian Jews.
Three Jews were among 86 Czechs executed by the
Nazis in Prague over the week-end, according to a
report broadcast by the Vichy radio. The condemned
were charged with sheltering enemy agents, commit-
ting hostile acts or helping the killers of Reinhard
Heydrich. The property of all was confiscated.
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SWITZERLAND—
Members of the Protestant Church in Switzerland
were urged to combat anti-Semitic propaganda in a
call issued here by the Moderator of the National
Protestant Church of Geneva.
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ENGLAND—
The promise made by British Prime Minister Church-
ill some time ago that "Jewish sufferings will not be
forgotten," coupled with a pledge of retribution by the
Allied Nations, was broadcast over the British radio.
Emphasizing that "the threat to Palestine is direct
and urgent," the Zionist Review, official Zionist organ,
this week carries an article demanding the immediate
formation of a Jewish army in Palestine for the pur-
pose of fighting the Nazis "before the eleventh hour
is reached."
A delegation of Jewish leaders from Poland and
Czechoslovakia now in London was received by An-
thong, Drexel-Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to
the Polish and Czechoslovak Governments-in-Exile,
and presented to him a comprehensive report on the
Jewish situation in their respective countries under the
Nazi occupation. The report also contained an appeal
asking the American ambassador to intervene with the
State Department in Washington for the purpose of
securing the consent of the Ainerican Government for
the sending of food to the starving Jews of Poland and
Czechoslovakia in the same manner as this is being
done for the starving population in Axis-held Greece.
An appeal to the government of Great Britain and
the United States to warn the Germans of retaliation
for the mass-murder of Jews by the Nazis in the occu-
pied countries was voiced by a speaker on the first Yid-
dish program ever broadcast by the British Broadcast-
ing System.
The contributions made by Haym Salomon—who
was a Polish Jew—to the cause of American liberty
during the dark days of the American Revolution
were cited in London by the Polish National Council
at a special session on the occasion of the celebration
of American Indepedence Day. U.S. Ambassador An-
thony Drexel-Biddle attended the session. Leading
members of the Polish Govgrnment paid tribute to
America's role in the war effort, while Dr. Ignacy
Schwartzbart, one of the two Jewish deputies in the
Council, speaking of Haym Salomon, stressed the ties
that unite the Polish people and the Polish Jews with
the United States.
Ruling of Social Security
Chief -Puts Teeth in Drive
Against Job Discrimination
Reports of Prejudice in Detroit Defense Plants Bring Strong
Protest From Sen. Vandenberg; Government
Leaders Aroused
Government leaders this week combined their ener-
gies to fight against the spread of racial and religious
discrimination in employment.
Reports of evidences of prejudice in plants engaged
in war defense manufacturing activities have aroused na-
tional leaders to action.
There have been reports of
crimination against Jews in De- the facilities of the United States
troit plants, and The Jewish Employment Service are , con-
News was informed on Wednes- cerned, according to a ruling is-
aay that these charges will be sued here by Mrs. Anna M. Ros-
investigated. Senator Arthur H. enberg, regional director of the
Vandenberg, in a statement. to Social Security Board. Addition-
The Jewish News, was emphatic al teeth were thus put into the
in declaring that "any such ra- drive against discrimination in
cial discriminations are without industry, a campaign headed by
justification and certainly are in- the President's Committee on
tolerable." Fair Employment Practice.
To "stimulate the fullest utili-
zation of the labor supply", Mrs.
GOVERNMENT FROWNS
Rosenberg sent a memorandum
ON EMPLOYEES WITH BIAS
NEW YORK (JPS)—Any em- to U.S.E.S. administrative depart-
ployer refusing to employ work- ments urging discouragement of
ers of a particular color, race or employers making specifications
religion will be deprived of the with respect to "race, color,
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services of any worker, insofar as
Sokolsky Denies
Attacking Jews
Columnist Who Criticized
Frankfurter Offers Explan-
ation of References
NEW YORK (JPS)—Stung by
a news story of the Independent
Jewish Press Service, George So-
kolsky, nationally syndicated col-
umnist, denied that a recent col-
umn of his was an attack on
"Jewish refugees" and insisted
that he is "a , plump, Jewish-look-
ing person" instead of "Japanese-
looking", a term which he called
a lie.
In a column printed in the
New York Sun, Mr. Sokolsky said
his purpose was to denounce
"I.:azification of those who look
under their beds at night t_o dis-
cover a Himmler agency. I can
understand the sensitiveness, the
nervousness; the irritability and
fear of these people," referring
to the news agencsj. •
In his first coltunn which had
been reported, Mr. Sokolsky had
declared that "the alien is- here
for his own purposes. Let him
stick to those." He also- criticized
Justice Frankfiirter, referring to
a "Laski-Frankfurter, Axis."
Condensed from Cables of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
RUSSIA—
Dr. Emil Sommerstein, former Jewish deputy in
Polish Sejm, has been located in a hospital near Sar-
tov, on the Volga, the Polish Ambassador Stanisla •
Kot cabled this week from Kuibyshev. Kot stated th.
Sommerstein is gravely ill, and that the Polish author
ties are attempting to have him transferred to Kuib
shev. The Polish ambassador also revealed that althoug
Sommerstein was officially released. as of Nov. 19, 194
he was not actually freed until last April 9.
Jews in Nazi-occupied Russia and in the Balt
countries last week were ordered by the occupation-
authorities to surrender within three days all the'.
cash, their valuables and all articles of gold and silo
in their possession, the Swedish newspaper Svensk
Dagbladet reports this week.
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HOLLAND—
How Belgians and Dutchmen are persistently defyin
the Nazi laws against the Jews and risking their
to defend Jews in their countries is told in reports fro
Amsterdam and Brussels. In Holland, one of the repo •
says, Dutch workers slip into the Jewish ghetto
Amsterdam at night in order to protect the Jews ther
from anticipated anti-Jewish attacks. In Belgium, loc-
non-Jews, according to complaints in pro-Nazi new
papers, have made a practice of passing Jewish childre
from one non-Jewish home to another each day, th
ensuring that the child will get fed.
Berlin correspondents of Swedish newspapers info •
that the Nazi authorities in occupied Holland issue
an order prohibiting Dutch Jews from entering ram
way stations, or using any kind of public transpo -
tion. The order also bars Jews from entering no
Jewish barber shops, using telephones and sharin
rooms with non-Jews.
The "complete evacuation" of all Jews from Hollan.
to Nazi-occupied Eastern territories is predicted in th
Essener Zeitung. Goering's organ.
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GERMANY—
Dr. Heinrich Stahl, the 70-year-old president of th
Jewish community of Berlin, one of the most vener
able Jewish leaders in Germany, and his wife, we
deported this week to Nazi-occupied Eastern territo •
Fifty leading members and officials of the Berlin Jew
ish community have likewise been deported. Dr. Leh
man Katzenberger, 86-year-old president of the Jewis ,
Community in Nuremberg, has been condemned
death by the Nazis, according to another report. Juli
Streicher, the notorious anti-Semite who is the ruler o
Nuremberg, personally appeared in court to demon.
that the aged Jewish leader be sentenced to death. D
Katzenberger, despite his age, was charged with al
legedly violating the so - called Rassenschande reg
ulations.
New regulations designed to further harrass Berl' ,
Jews axe reported this week in the Swedish pr- -
The lafAst/ anti-Jewish measures prohibit Jews •
leisurely stroll along streets, bars them from stoppin
to speak to other Jews they meet or pausing to loo
into shop winclatvs. They are forbidden to carry can
and may not walk more than two abreast. All Jew
in the streets must proceed at a rapid pace indicatin:
that they are on a definite errand.
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SLOVAKIA—
Convinced that "the day of retaliation" for the mere'
less atrocities against Jews will come "when Ameri.s
will take an active part on the battlefront in Europe,
and ashamed of the fact that their government is up
rooting tens of thousands of Jews and deporting the
into occupied- Eastern territory, hundreds of Slova•
are risking their lives by offering shelter to Slovakia
Jews who hide to escape being expelled from Slovakia.
Jews in Slovakia have become a commodity on whi
Nazi Germany is making millions of marks, it wa
learned from a reliable source which stated' that for eac
Jew deported from Slovakia to Nazi-occupied easter
territory the German Government is charging Slovaki
4,000 marks. In this way, Germany is paying off her deb
to Slovakia for imported Slovakian articles, chiefly f•
and timber. The "admission money" paid by Slovaki
to Germany for the deported Jews has now reache•
hundreds of millions of Slovakian crowns, the repo
-says.
Jews Dispute Right of Allie
National Armies to Mobiliz
Refugees Now in Palestine
Immigrants Now Integrated in Jewish National Community
Declares Agency, As Long Controversy
Comes to Head
JERUSALEM (JTA) •••;•• The
Jewish Agen.cy for Palestine this
week issued a forthright state-
ment disputing : the claims of the
various allied national armies
based in Palestine—such as the
Poles, Czechs and Greeks—that
Jewish refugees here who are
citizens of those countries should
join their respective armies.
This controversy, which has
been brewing for some months,
came to a bead when Moshe
Shertok,' chief of the - political
department of the Agency, speak-
ing at a press conference here,
stated definitely that "the Jewish
Agency considers every Jewish
immigrant an integral part of the
Jewish national :body engaged in
establishing ii–national home in
Palestine. •
The Jewish Agency believes
that those • nations who in the
past demanded and assisted Jew-
ish .irnmigratipit. to . Palestine
must share the that their
respective citizens in Pales •
are now integrated in the Jew
ish national community, and par
ticipation by these Jews, organ
ized in purely Jewish units, " •
the common struggle should •
considered by the Allied natio..
as directly assisting their o •
efforts."
,
Navy Chaplain
CINCINNATI — Rabbi Sel
D. Ruslander, director of you
activities of the Union of Amer
ican Hebrew Congregations, an.
Executive Director of the Nation
al Federation of Temple You •
affiliated with the Union, h.
been commissioned as chaplain •
the navy, with rank of lieuten-
ant, JG. He is 31, married and
has
two children.