Friday. Jay 31, 19
THE JEWISH NEW'S
Page Four
Federal Indictment Charges
28 Rabble Rousers, Pro-Axis
Groups Hit at Army Morale
Government Alleges Conspiracy to Sabotage U. S. War
Effort by Promoting Racial Hate; America First,
Bund and Klan Among Accused
N. Y. Yeshiva
Ban Hinges
on Technique
WASHINGTON (JPS)—Climaxing its campaign to
root out the advocates of hate, disunity and defamation
who want to "obstruct and defeat" America's effort to
win the war, the Department of Justice obtained from a
Federal Grand Jury here an indictment of 27 men and one
woman who were charged with conspiracy to disrupt the Showdown Nears in 3-Year
Dispute With Bd. of Educ-
morale of the armed forces. . 4)
The indictment, the broadest of DEMAND FEDERAL PROBE
tion Over Schedule
Folk in 12th Street
Area Hwit Scrap
To Dump on Hitler
3,000 Apartment Dwellers
Join Drive; Big Open Air
Rally Set for Aug. 8
The Win the War Council,
composed of representatives of
3,000 persons residing in 30
apartment buildings in the 12th
Street area, are setting up the
machinery for a speedy and ef-
fective drive to collect scrap. Ma
terial. Each apartment house
will hold a meeting. to elect its
salvage director and organize to
comb the neighborhood for scrap.
The campaign will culminate -sit
a "Win the War Rally" 'which,
the Council is arranging for Sat
urday, Aug. 8 at 6 p. m., on a
lot near 2211 -Pingree Ave. Rep-
resentatives of the Treasury De
partment, Red Cross and other
war agencies will - address the
gathering. The program also will
include a Navy Band, speakers,
movies, community singing and
refreshments. Everybody is in-
vited.
Friends Honor
Capt. Gitlin as H
Leaves -for Duty
Guests at Testimoni
Doctor, Wife Lauded for
Work Here
100
An impressive gathering
100 guests assembled Tuesda
evening for a testimonial ba
quet, at the Wilshire, honori
Dr. Charles Gitlin, prior to h
departure for• •FOrt Benjanii
Harrison, Indiana:. Dr. Gitr
who • has been commissioned
captain, left for active serv'
Wedneiday. Mrs. Gitlin, recen
iy appointed 'a commander
the Navy, accompanied him f
a brief stay at the fort and w'
return to her home at 2730 El _
hurst Ave., next week to c
tinue her activities as -a lea
in women's work in behalf
the Naval recruits in this city.
Bob Hall was master of ce
monies at the banquet. Rab
Leon Fram, besides giving
invocation, delivered a touch'
address. Among the speake
were Lieut. B. E. Flechtner, co
mandant of the U. S. Navy
cruiting Station; Ensign Mo
Herman Cohen, Dr. Leo Or
lin, Mrs. Hannah Harvith. pr
dent of Mt. Sinai Hospital
sociation, who presented
Gitlin with a wrist watch fr
the association; Nathaniel Go/,
stick, Dr. M. E. Bachman, W'
Liam. Plotkin, Dr. R. R. Schill
Dr. Leon Katzin, Mrs. I. Rose
thal, Dr. Nat Gitlin. L. Lewis
the D. P. W.. and Mrs. Gitli
Dr. Gitlin responded.
The speakers lauded Dr. a
Mrs. Gitlin's activities in beha
cf the Jewish hospital moveme
in Detroit and expressed conf
dence that they will share in t
joy of seeing the movement be
fruit in the near future.
"- Miss Rosina Betman, acco
panied by Lee Corbma
Schakne, sang a group of patr
otic songs.
its kind ever issued, also listed OF BUND'S FRIENDS
publications and organizations
ALBANY (JPS) — The New
NEW YORK---,Friends of De-
which were allegedly part of the mocracy have called on the De- York Jewish parochial school or
vast conspiracy to promote the partment of Justice for an in- yeshiva, where thousands of
cause of the Axis from the anti- vestigation of those individuals Jewish children and youth an-
Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro and organizations who in any nually receive their combined
and other hate angles.
way gave aid and comfort to the secular Jewish education on the
SOME ALREADY JAILED,
German-American Bund during same basis as children in Cath-
OTHERS ARE INDICTED
the period when the Bund was olic schools, is threatened with
Included among the accused acting as "a recruiting agent for elimination in a hearing now be-
ing conducted before the New
were men. some already indicted Nazi spies and saboteurs."
or in jail, notorious for their
" L. M. York State Board of Regents,
" This is a total war,
Owen D. Young presiding, as the
anti-Semitism. These included
Court Asher, publisher of X-Ray; Birkhead, national director of climax of a three-year clash be-
Friends of Democracyaid in is-
Hudson de Priest, writer for Ger- suing the statement, " and any tween the Board of sponsors of
the yeshiva system. If the threat-
old Winrod, publisher of The De-
fender; Mrs. Elizabeth billing; person or group guilty of fur- ened ban is invoked, Jewish
nishing the Bund with propa-
Registrations are now being
spokesmen say, an unparalleled
George Sylvester Viereck; Rob-
its meetings
taken at the Jewish Community
blow will have been dealt to
ert Edward Edmondson, one of ganda, speaking at
Center for an Air Raid Warden
the great
the "pioneer" anti-Semites of the or minimizing in the eyes of the
American people the danger of its Jewish education in
class.
'20s, who used his "letter service"
work, must be held responsible." metropolis.
The class, under the auspices
The point at issue is an order
to spread his hatred of Jews;
In his statement to Attorney-
Charles B. Hudson, publisher of
Birkhead by the Board demanding that of the Office of Civilian Defense,
General Biddle, Dr.
America in Danger; William Dud- gives a lengthy account of the the yeshivas teach their secular will be held in the evening,
ley Pellet', Silver Shirter and
and ex- l subjects in the morning, espe- starting late in August. making
activities of the Bund
cially arithmetic and reading. it possible for many employed
publisher of The Galilean; James
G. Wilhelm!
C. True, Washington anti-Semitic poses the record of
But the veshiva sponsors reply women, as well as for the men,
Kunze, the successor to Fritz , that they depend on teachers in to take the course.
"letter service" writer; the no-
Kuhn as leader of the Bund.
1 the New York school system to
Those interested may either
torious Col. E. N. Sanctuary; Ed-
The Chicago Tribune and the I instruct pupils in these subjects. leave their names at the Center,
ward James Smythe, publisher
of Our Common Cause. and Leon New York Daily News are con- 1 and such teachers are not free Woodward at Holbrook, or tele-
de Aryan, San Diego publisher. demned for giving comfort to the until their own school work is phone the Center office. Madison
subversive groups. Others against finished in the afternoon.
ORGANIZATIONS ACCUSED
8400. Notices will be sent to all
whom the statement warns are:
Louis J. Gribetz, attorney for registered when a date has been
OF UNDERMINING MORALE
Listed also were such organi-
Former Congressman Jacob i 26 of the yeshivas, was accom- set for the course.
zations as the American First 'rhorkelson, Senator Robert R. panied to the Albany hearing by
The August course will be the
Committee, the German-Ameri- Reynolds, the - Ku Klux Klan, the an impressive delegation, includ- initial Air Raid Warden Class FALANGISTS CAMPAIG
can Bund, the Ku Klux Klan and Protestant War Veterans, Ed- ing leading rabbis and educators. offered at Jewish Community AGAINST CIRCUMCISIO
similar organizations.
ward James Smythe, Father as well as State Senator Lazarus Center. It will be added to the
The indictment charged "a Coughlin, Merwin K. Hart, Joseph Joseph and Samuel Levy, former war efforts program which, to
LISBON (JPS)—It is repot'
systematic campaign of personal McWilliams, James True, George president of the Borough of Man- date, is training or has trained that the Spanish Falangist Pa
vilification and defamation of Deatherage, Robert Edmundson, hattan. some 800 people in - various First has started a campaign to p
public officials of the United William Dudley Pelley, •Newton
Samuel Saar, dean of men at Aid, Home Nursing, Morse Code. hibit circumcision in Spain.
States Government" in order to Jenkins, Donald Shea, Gen. Yeshiva College in New York,. and other Red Cross and Defense
convince members of the armed George van Horn Moseley, Law- stressed that the issue before the work, at the Center. Mrs_ Jo-
forces that "such public officials rence Dennis, A. Caroselli, Wil- Board of Regents is not ,a re-. seph M. Welt is chairman of the
are traitorous, corrupt, dishonest, liam Gregg Blanchard, P. Sal- ligious one but purely a question war efforts committee of the
Don't Take Chances!
incompetent, un-American and vatore Caridi, Italian Black and of education technique. It was Jewish Community Center. Her -
Air Raid Warden,
Class at Center
Radio Repairs
mentally unbalanced."
Circolo Morgantino.
Have yur ractio re-
paired now — parts
may ne .unobtain-
able later. Satisfae-
tion guaranteed.
his View that the parochial assistants are Mrs. Morris Rand,
schools are conforming with the in charge of the formation of
Use of Anti-Semitism Cited
In Conspiracy In di 1 • ctment
law.
Jewish Welfare
Fund Joins War
WASHINGTON (JPS)—The indictment whin the Federal Grand Chest in Vinci'
Jury handed down here against 27 men and one woman, charging -
______
them with a conspiracy to "interfere with, impair and influence the
CINCINNATI (JPS) — The
layalty, morale and discipline of the military and naval forces of the
United States," included a variety of references to the use of anti- Jewish Welfare Fund of Cincin-
Semitism by these alleged subsversive agents, an examination of nati will be affiliated with the
Hamilton County War Chest
the document reveals.
when the latter begins its cam-
DOCUMENT COVERS 28 PAGES
paign in February, 1943, it was
The Grand Jurors indicted the defendants, listed as "Gerald B.
Winrod, et al," for causing to be printed and for distributing litera- decided by the Jewish Commun-
ture issued by various publications and for organizing and causing ity Council by a unanimous vote,
to be organized various bodies such as Silver Shirts, Black Legion, the American Israelite reports.
The last campaign of the Jew-
German-American Band, etc. In the lengthy 28-page indictment, ci-
tation of evidence includes, in part, the charge that these arguments ish Welfare Fund was held in
were used:
September, 1941, when some
"The war now raging in all parts of the world, commonly known $385,000 was raised. For its in-
as 'The War for Survival', is a dishonest war waged at the expene clusion in the War Chest it is
and measured in blood and dollars of the people of the United States asking only $330.000, the balance
solely for the benefit of and to insure the continuance of world dom- being
for local • and national
ination by 'International ,Jewry-Organized Finance,' British-Amer-
jean Capitalists,' 'British Imperialists', 'International Bankers', 'In- civic-protective agencies. The of-
ternational CapitAists', 'Mongolian Jews', Communists and other ficers of the Jewish Community
persons and groups opposed to our republican form of govern- Council felt that these agencies
could not ask for support from
ment.
the community at large and a
AXIS FIGHTING TO FREE WORLD
"The Axis powers are fighting to free the world from domina- separate campaign will be con-
tion by Communism and International Jewry, hence the United ducted for these purposes;
Kansas City voted last spring
States should give no aid and comfort to the enemies of the Axis.
"An honorable and just peace could be brought about speedily to postpone its 1942 campaign
were it not for the opposition of Communists and International until this fall, when it will re-
Jew ry."
classes, and Mrs_ Oscar M. Ze-
mon, who heads promotional and
registrational work.
The U. S. expects to reach the
President's goal of 60.000 military
airplanes in 1942 or more than it
has produced since the birth of
aviation.
Do Your
Share— §I
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UNITED STATES
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