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. 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