THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Friday, August - 7, 1942

World Wide News at a Glance

On the American Front.

Nye Bill Seen as Postwar Aid
To Anti-Jewish Publications

WASHINGTON (JTA)—An attempt by Social
Justice, X-Ray and other Jew-baiting publications
to make a comeback after the war was seen this
week in all bill introduced by Senator Gerald P.
Nye, Democrat, of North Dakota, who was one of the
Senate's leading isolationists before Pearl Harbor.
The bill, which was referred to the Senate Com-
mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads, would "re-
lieve newspapers and periodical publications which
have voluntarily suspended publication for the dur-
ation of the war from payment of second-class mail-
ing fees upon resumption of publication." Legally, it
might be argued that Social Justice and X-Ray
"voluntarily" suspended publication, although both
were facing hearings which would probably have
resulted in permanent revocation of their mailing
privileges. A spokesman for the post office depart-
ment indicated that it would probably fight any
such contention.

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In Nazi-Held Territories

RUMANIA—Certain categories of Jews in Rumania
will be forced to serve with the Rumanian Army under
new instructions issued by the Ministry for War, it was
announced this week on the Bucharest radio. The Min-
ister of War directed that all Jewish doctors, phar-
macists, engineers and architects in the country will
henceforth be required to serve 90 days in a "civilian
capacity" with the army.
• • •
SLOVAKIA—The question of whether or not the
editor of the anti-Jewish pro-Nazi newspaper "Slovak",
organ of President Tiso and Premier Tuka of Slovakia,
has Jewish blood has precipitated a minor crisis in
the German puppet state. Editor Pauco of the "Slovak"
is sueing Anton Maly, director of the Zilina Electrical
Works, for libel because the latter said Pauco was of
Jewish origin.
• • •
BELGIUM--One hundred Belgian Jews who had
been confined in the St. Giles prison in Brussels on
charges of "sabotage" have been deported from Belgium
to Poland or occupied Russia.
• • •
Anti-Semitic propaganda spread by the German
occupation authorities and Fascist organizations in
Belgium is strongly counteracted by the activ-
ities of the Belgian teachers and clergy. The Nazi paper
"S. S. Man," published in Belgium, charges that "the
Athenaeum in Greater Antwerp is becoming the best
organized place for incitement in the whole country."
It complains that the teachers influence the children in
"an anti-Nazi spirit."
• • •
HUNGARY—The Hungarian Government is follow-
ing up its recent series of anti-Jewish measures with
a widespread anti-Semitic propaganda campaign evi-
dently_designed to shift the people's attention from the
tremendous losses being suffered by the Hungarian
troops on the Russian front.
• • •
BESSARABIA—The German radio this week, quot-
ing the Rumanian newspaper "Bessarabia", published
in Kishinev, confirms previous Rumanian claims that
the entire province of Bessarabia has been made
"judenrein."
• • •
FRANCE—A French-Jewish professor who had per-
fected an invention of great military value was tor-
tured to death by the Germans in a vain attempt to
extort the secret from him, it was disclosed this week
by Paul Simon, a former Catholic deputy in the French
parliament, speaking at Norwich, England. The profes-
sor, whom Mr. Simon did not name, was first tortured
by having his hands roasted over a slow fire, and when
this failed his skull was crushed by a slow pressure.
He died, however, without divulging any information
to the Nazis.

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WASHINGTON—Earl G. Harrison, newly-appointed
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, has
pledged that he will "do everything possible" to facili-
tate the naturalization of aliens serving in the armed
forces of the United States. The pledge was given in a
letter replying to a query by a loyal alien concerning a
recent modification by the War Department of the nat-
uralization regulations for alien soldiers, it was dis-
closed here this week.
• • •
The use of "the strength, the courage, the devoted
loyalty of 100,000 Jews in Palestine" was advocated by
Rep. Elmer J. Holland of Pennsylvania, speaking on
the floor of the House of Representatives. Rep. Herman
P. Eberharter of Pennsylvania congratulated Holland
on his address and pointed out that the plan for a
Jewish army does not contemplate the enlistment of
Jews in the United States or any other country where
they are permitted to serve freely in the armed forces
of the United Nations. Rep. Andrew Somers of New
York said he though the speech would prOve "most
heartening to the oppressed people of the world."
• • •
NEW YORK—A group of Polish-Jewish soldiers who
saw action in the Libyan campaign were welcomed at
a reception arranged by the Federation of Polish Jews.
They are part of a group of 300 polish soldiers who
arrived here this week from Russia and the Midlle East

• • •

More than 200 Jewish trade unionists, officials of
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indus-
trial Organizations trade union bodies, issued a joint
statement calling upon the Jews of America to help
raise funds for tanks and bombers for the Red Army,
in response to a recent appeal from the Jewish Anti-
Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union which called
upon the Jews of the world to help provide one thou-
sand tanks and five hundred bombers for the Russian
forces.
• • •
The New York State Industrial Union Council which
represents the CIO unions of New -York State, has
adopted a resolution endorsing "the important activi-
ties of ORT". The resolution also calls upon its affiliated
unions to give their fullest support to this organization
which maintains hundreds of trade schools, workshops
and farm colonies in various parts of the world. At a
recent conference of prominent trade union leaders,
both the CIO and AF of L, a decision was adopted to
raise a fund of $75,000 for ORT among New York trade
unions.
• • •
U. S. Senator James M. Mead of New York has
joined the Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless
and Palestine Jews, it is announced this week by G. A.
Wechsler, national secretary of the committee.
Senator Mead, in joining the Committee, said: "For
years we made the mistake of trying to compromise
with our democratic ideals. Today, we are repeating -
that mistake. We are not fully mobilizing our moral
resources .. . Less appeasement and more vision, less
fear and more courage—these are the urgent needs of
the moment. And there in Palestine is one vital instance
where we can demonstrate such statesmanship and
vision and courage."
• • •
The Mizrachi Organization of America has estab-
lished a Youth and Education Department, the purpose
of which is to organize Young Men's Mizrachi, Junior
Mizrachi and cultural and educational activities, it was
announced this week. Dr. Aaron Rosmarin was appoint-
ed director of this department.
• • •
BALTIMORE—Five hundred and fifty-seven refu-
gees from Nazism who had been stranded in Portugal
and unoccupied France, arrived here this week aboard
the Portuguese liner, S. S. Nyassa. The Nyassa left
Lisbon, Portugal, on July 10, put in at Casablanca,
French Morocco, several days later to pick up the bulk
of her passengers who had been transferred from Mar-
seille, unoccupied France, in order to board the ship,
and stopped over at Bermuda on July 21 for a week.

Condensed from Cables of the

Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Hungarian Police Arrest Jews
For Illegal Border Crossing

BERNE (JTA)—In the course of a house-to-house
raid by Hungarian police one night this week, 50
Jews accused of entering Hungary illegally were
arrested, the Budapest radio announced.
Recently the Hungarian police seized many per-
sons accused of smuggling Jews into the country
from Slovakia and furnishing them with forged im-
migration permits. Since large-scale deportations of
Slovakian Jews began, many who were able to elude
the Slovakian authorities slipped across the border
into Hungary.

In Democratic Countries

CANADA—A resolution condemning anti-Semitism,
assailing the massacre of Jews in Europe, expressing
sympathy with the "prisoners in the ghettos", and hail-
ing the activities of the anti-Nazi underground move-
ments, was adopted in Toronto at the closing session of
the joint convention of the Canadian Commonwealth
Federation and the Dominion Socialist Party.
• • •
ENGLAND—A promise that Polish refugees in

Russia—among whom are many Jews—will continue to
receive food, clothing and medicine on a lease-lend
basis from the United States has been given to Jan
Stancyzk, Polish Minister of Social Welfare, by Edward
Stettinius, American Lease-Lend Administrator, it was
announced in Dziennik Polski, official organ of the
Polish Government-in-Exile.

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Jewish Workers in Autonomous
Biro-Bidjan Region Train for
Action Against Nazi Invaders

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Terrain of Jewish Settlement Offers Many Advantages for the Nazis have visited their worst
atrocities—was emphasized in an
Preparing Jewish Soldiers for Battle; Polish-Jewish
address delivered to the trainees
Leader Renews Plea for Aid to Red Army
by Col. Boris Heyman, one of
KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—Thousands of Jewish work- the officers in command.
ers in the Jewish autonomous region of Biro-Bidjan in the TANKS, BOMBERS NEEDED
Far Eastern section of the Soviet Union, are training fever-
A prominent leader of Polish
ishly awaiting the call to battle, according to information Jewry now in the Soviet Union,
reaching here this week.
whose name cannot be divulged
Immediately after the normal day's work is com- for fear of Nazi reprisals against
members of his family who are
pleted the Jewish workers gather.';')

at the training fields where ex- ACCUSTOMED TO TERRAIN
perienced Red Army instructors The terrain of Biro-Bidjan fur-
drill them in the tactics of de- nishes many advantages for the
training of soldiers. There are
fensive and offensive warfare. vast expanses of level fields, hilly
Those tactics which have met country, steep mountain trails
with great success in fighting ht and many rivers. Outside the
the front are studied carefully limits of the capital city of Biro-
and practiced by the trainees. Bidjan, itself, hundreds of young
They are being hardened to meet Jews can be seen drilling daily
all eventualities that might be in the open ground and marshes
encountered when they arrive at along the Taiga river.
the front. As one instructor put
The double responsibility that
it, they are "being trained not faces the Jews of Biro-Bidjan-
only to be good soldiers but to as citizens of a nation at war with
Germans and as Jews upon whom
perform heroic exploits."

still in Poland, this week ad-
dressed an appeal from here to
the Jews of the world to collect
funds to buy tanks and bombers
and ammunition for the Red
Army.

The appeal is addressed to:
"Friends of the World Jewish
Congress and the American Jew-
ish Congress, dear colleagues and
friends of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee,
Jews of Rio - de Janeiro and
Buenos Aires, my friends in Je-
rusalem and Tel Aviv and my

friends in Capetown."

A demand that the British Government mobilize all
available manpower in Palestine in the British Army
and also that it "make every effort to equip and train
the Jewish community of Palestine to resist invasion"

was contained in a resolution adopted by the Liverpool
district conference of the Labor Party. Samuel Silver-
man, Laborite M. P., addressing the conference, ap-
pealed to the United Nations to give the Jews the
right to fight in their own name.
• • •
The British Labor Party has decided to launch a

large-scale educational campaign among British work-
ers designed to win the utmost support for measures
by the United Nations which would bring a halt tp the

atrocities being perpetrated by the Nazis upon the
civilian populations of occupied countries — including

hundreds of thousands of Jews.

• • •

German Jews in Britain are still considered "enemy
aliens". it was indicated this week in a statement ma •
in the House of Commons by Minister of Home Security '
Herbert Morrison.

• • •

In the Palestine Homeland

A conference -tor the purpose of strengthening re-
lations between Palestine and Russia and increasing aid

to the Soviet people will be held here on Aug. 24, it was
announced in a joint proclamation by the Victory
League of Russia and all sections of the Histadruth.
The League has officially invited the Russian ambas-
sador to Turkey to attend the conference, it was learned

this week.

• • •
A letter from Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia,
expressing his appreciation for the congratulations sent
him by the Jewish National Council of Palestine on the
occasion of the liberation of his country from the

Italians, was received in Jerusalem this week: The mes-
sage, written in Selassie's own hand, expresses his be-
lief that "the Almighty win doubtless bring:victory to
Britain and the Allies and thus liberate the unfortunate

nations suffering under the Nazi yoke."

More Jewish Heroes of War
Are Praised by Soviet Press

Outstanding Bravery Record- (nest types of Soviet military ;
ed; Stretcher Bearer Gets
planes. Shenkman was killed in
an aviation catastrophe.
Lenin Order

SAVED 167 SOLDIERS
The Lenin Order, highest So-
viet award, has been conferred
on a Jewish stretcher bearer by
the name of Blochin, the Russian
papers announce.- His remark-I,
able bravery in saving 167
wounded Russian soldiers single-
handed on the battlefields around
Kalinin at the risk of his life
won Blochin the coveted award.
Simon Gimpelson, guerrilla
leader, is another Jewish hero
acclaimed by the Soviet press
Wounded twice on the Leningrad
front, this Jewish fighter refused
to heed the warnings of his doc-
tors and is now battling once
again against the Germans.
ENGINEERS HONORED
It was announced here thitf,
the Moscow Proletarian Division,

KUIBYSHEV (JPS)—The So-
viet press, continuously taking
note of the role of Jews in help-
ing Russia resist the invader, has
added new heroes to its list. One
of these is tank battalion Com-
mander Kagansky, who distin-;
guished himself on the Voronezh
front. Fighting against great
odds, Captain Kagansky inflicted
heavy casualties on the enemy.
On _the third day of fighting , he
and his battalion pushed through
the enemy lines, but in the sav-
age clash the Jewish tank fighter
was killed.
At the same time, Russian
newspapers make clear that Ma-
jor General Jacob Reiser, head of

three times wounded, is alive, week that several 'Jewish engi-
thus refuting Nazi claims that he neers have been honored by the',

was killed in action.
The. Soviet Government has
awarded an allowance and a life-
long monthly pension to the fam-
ily of the late Jewish aviation
engineer, Matvei Shenkman,
who had produced some of the

Soviet Government for increas-;
ing the production of fighter .
planes and bombers.
Among
those receiving the Order of the
Red Star are the engineers Arson,
Gundelan, Schweitzer, Miller, Le-

witin and Lewin.

