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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 14, 194
World Wide News at a Glance
Brands Vichy Anti-Semitic,
Doubts Sincerity of "Protest"
NEW YORK (JTA)—"The free world neither
understands nor approves Vichy's treatment of an
unhappy people," declares the New York Herald
Tribune in an editorial discussing the recent intensi-
fication of anti-Jewish activity in France.
It points out that "the Vichy regime is anti-
Semitic. It bans Jews from many private occupations
and all public ones and has passed legislation pro-
viding for confiscation of their property. It has not
yet, however, gone in for the more brutal forms of
anti-Semitism as practiced by the Germans."
Discussing recent reports concerning Papal inter-
vention with Marshal Petain concerning the persecu-
tion of Jews, and the aged Marshal's subsequent
intercession with the Germans, the paper writes:
"Apart from confirming the Vatican's outspoken hos-
tility to anti-Semitism, the story about Petain's
attempt to temper the harshness of the Nazis toward
the Jews may have been released to American cor-
respondents in an effort to clear the old marshal's
skirts."
In Nazi-Held Territories
BELGIUM—
The Belgian Nazi paper Volk en Staat protests
the fact that Jewish names are still used by the tele-
phone company in giving instructions in its directories
on the current use of the telephone. "Instead of say-
ing 'A as in Adam, D as in David, etc.' when spelling
out names on the telephone, Aryan names should be
used," the Nazi .paper demands.
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GERMANY-
• An official announcement that a large public
auction of goods confiscated from Jews would be held
in Cologne appears in the Westdeutscher Beobachter
and tends to confirm recent reports that the mass-
deportation of Jews from Germany has been resumed.
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POL A ND—
A new Jewish forced-labor camp in which 8,000
Polish Jews are confined, has been set pp near Lublin
by the German authorities. The Jews concentrated
at this camp, which is called "SWamp," are being
used to drain and reclaim a huge stretch of marsh
in the Lublin area.
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FRANCE—
The Velodrome D'Hiver, a bicycle track near Paris,
is so tightly packed with Jews arrested by the Ger-
man occupation authorities that the internees find it
impossible to even stretch their legs,•the Paris corres-
pondent of the Social Democratic Berne newspaper
Tagwacht reports.
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SLOVAKIA—
Negotiations to obtain exit visas for 300 Jewish
children in Slovakia have so far been unsuccessful.
One neutral nation was willing to grant the children
a temporary permit on condition that should they
not be able to return to Slovakia after the war, they
would be in possession of visas to go to another neu-
tral country. But even this deferred permit appears
to be unobtainable. All the children are under 16
years of age and their parents, in most cases, have
already been deported by the Slovakian Government.
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HUNGARY—
The Hungarian authorities are experiencing great
difficulty as a result of the ousting of Jews from posi-
tions in the economic life of the country, it is revealed
in a report published in the "Magyar Orszag."
In Democratic Countries
ENGLAND—
Ivan Maisky, the Russian ambasador, has received
500 pounds from the Jewish Anti-Fascist League at
Tel Aviv and 500 pounds from the Jewish Anti-
Facist Committee at Haifa, it was announced by the
Soviet embassy in London. Both contributions will
be used to purchase bombers and tanks for the Red
Army.
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The cold-blooded extermination of the civilian
populations of occupied countries by the German
military commanders and the Nazi officials—especially
in Poland—is condemned in a resolution adopted this
week by the executive committee of the League of
Nations Union of Great Britain.
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The Jewish community of Great Britain was called
upon to introduce communal taxation to finance - Jew-
ish educational activities, in a resolution adopted at
the closing session of the two-day conference of Jew-
ish educators in London. Prof. Selig Brodetsky, chair-
man of the Board of Jewish Deputies, urged that
modern Jewish education show the role of Palestine
in Jewish life. Other speakers stressed the need for
Bible instruction in Hebrew.
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SOUTH AFRICA—
More than 8.000 Soilth African Jews, about 9 per
cent of the total Jewish population of the Union of
South Africa, are serving with the British forces, of
which 3,000 are on the Middle Eastern front, it was
reported this week at the 14th biennial congress of
the Board of Deputies of South African Jews in
Johannesburg. Gerald Lazarus, president of the Depu-
ties, revealed that 131 of the Jewish soldiers had been
killed in the Libyan and Egyptian campaign, while
127 were wounded and 229 are missing,' and were
probably captured by the Nazis.
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"Ariti-Sernitisiri- is a manifestation of a canker
eating:at the very heart cf Christianity and must be
eradicated both out of justice to the Jews and for the
protection of the very basis of Western civilization,"
Premier Jan Smuts of the Union of South Africa de-
clared this week in a mesage read to the 350 delegates
at the opening session of the fourteenth biennial' con-
gress of the Board of Deputies of South African Jews.
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RUSSIA—
The exploits of Jewish heroes and heroines who
have distinguished themselves in the course of the
battles being waged on all fronts in Russia are feat- '
ured this week in the Soviet press. Especially lauded
is Isaac Tkatch, a lathe operator from a small town
near Vinitsa, whose fierce resistance to a Nazi attack
prevented the C;ernaans from crossing a strategic river.
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CANADA—
An anti-Semitic agitator who edited a Fascist paper
in Winnipeg was denounced on the floor of the Can-
adian House of Commons by M. J. Coldwell, Coopera-
tive Commonwealth leader, who demanded to know
why the government had not taken some action
against him • . . Coldwell pointed out that Charles
Crate, editor of a Fascist periodical, "The Thunder-
bolt," had sought to stir up racial hatred in Canada
by declaring that the three enemies of the country
were the Jews, Catholics and Masons, and was "still
writing to people saying that the cause of the present
war was the Jews."
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URUGUAY—
A contribution of $2,000 collected by the Jewish
Committee for Aid to Russia and other Democratic
Countries, of Montevideo, Uruguay, has just been re-
ceived by the Soviet Embassy in Washington.
JDC Helped Nearly Million
Overseas Jews in 17 Months
Cambridge Students
Vow to Avenge Jew
Killed in Air Raid
LONDON (JPS) — Rising en
masse in anger against the Nazis
who, in an air raid, caused the-
death of a brilliant Jewish stu-
• Through Borrowing Plan
dent at Cambridge, students of
NEW YORK (JTA)—Nearly 1,000,000 Jews on five Cambridge University have sign-
continents received aid at an expenditure of $9,285,000 ed a declaration vowing they
ddring 1941 and the first .five months of 1942, it is dis- will fight to avenge their fellow"
closed in a report for that period issued by the American stu dent.
Ramnahum, the exceptionally
Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, chief American
clever Jewish scholar from India,
agency for aid to distressed Jews overseas.
was killed in a German air at-
The report describes the back-- ,
tack over England. He had ex-
ground of contemporaneous Jew- traordinary effort, it made pos- celled in scientific subjects and
ish distress the world over in its sible the evacuation of 5,000 had won a reputation as a fine
country-by-country section. It men, women and children from speaker. His family lives in In-
details the amounts spent by the Europe; it launched a program of dia.
JDC in dozens of countries for sending medical supplies and
programs of war relief and emer- concentrated food products to Christian Barber
gency reief, emigration, feed- help many of the 2,000.000 Polish
ing, clothing, sheltering, child refugees, of whom 600,000 are Bequeaths Funds
care, medical aid, vocational Jewish, in Asiatic Russia; it
training, reconstructive assistance brought many kinds of help to To 2 Jewish Groups
and other forms of help to Jews 60,000 refugees in unoccupied
WILKES BARRE, Pa. (JPS)—
overseas. France; it continued to give
5,000 EVACUATED . large-scale assistance to refugees Lewis James, a Christian and re-
- In the first six months after in Switzerland, Sweden, Portu- tired barber of West Pittston, be-
America entered the war, the gal, Spain and North Africa, and lieved in making his principles
of good will concrete, as was
Joint Distribution Committee it augmented and intensified its
testified by his will, which left
spent $3,415,000 in cash, the re- work of integrating 123,000 ref- bequests VI a synagogue and
port reveals. Staling that "the ugees in Latin America into their other Jewish organizations, in
record of JDC activity during new homelands."
addition to gifts to Catholic and
those six months constitutes the PAY BACK AFTER WAR
Protestant churches and chari-
most convincing proof of its abil- The report also explains the ar- ties. The Council Against Intol-
ity to continue life-giving pro- rangements made whereby Jew- erance in America and the Non-
grams of help to needy Jews ish communities in enemy and Sectarian Anti-Nazi League were
overseas," the report continues: occupied countries are continu- down for $500 each. His small
"In those six months, through ex-
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estate was evenly divided.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Two Brothers of Detroiters
Serving as Chaplains Overseas
MONTREAL (JTA) — Capt. Gershon Levi, firs
Jewish chaplain to be commissioned with the Can
adian armed forces, has arrived in the Uni
Kingdom, the War Efforts Committee of the Can
adian Jewish Congress announced this week. Cap
Levi, senior Jewish chaplain with the Canadi
forces, was appointed in March, 1941. He is th
first Jewish chaplain to go overseas from Cana
Word was received in Detroit this week tha
Rabbi Eliezer Levi, brother of Capt. Levi, is no
attached as chaplain with the American forces i
Australia. Rabbi Levi arrived in Sydney, Australi
last Rosh Hashonah, when he assumed the post o
Rabbi in the Central Synagogue of Woollahra,
suburb of Sydney.
The Levis are brothers of Abbe and David
Levi of Detroit and cousins of Theodore, Bay
Saul R., Hoke and Dr. Samuel J. Levin of Detro
and Mrs. David A. Croll of Windsor.
On the American Front
PHILADELPHIA—
The existence of a Nazi plot to injure hundr
of prominent American Jews was indicated herq- :.
material seized when Federal Bureau of Investiga
agents rounded up 150 German aliens in this city
week. A chart found in the home of one of the
rested men listed the names of hundreds of pro
inent Jews, with their occupation, including a
public office they held and close associates. .
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NEW YORK—
An exhibit of 30 colored anti-Axis paintings
Arthur Szyk, Polish-Jewish caricaturist, opened t
week in the Officers' Club of the First Air Command
Mitchell Field on Long Island. Szyk considers his pai
ings "weapons" in this war, and has expressed
desire that they be used by Ameiican airmen.
Ossip Dymov, well known Jewish and Russi
playwright and writer, was announced as the winn
of the first award to be made by the "Morris Eise
man Literary Fund" which will sponsor the public
tion of books in Yiddish by prominent Jewish writ
The Fund will publish Dymov's "My Memoirs."
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BALTIMORE—
The H1AS pier service, which greets incoming r
ugees from Europe and arranges the formalities co
nected with their debarkation, will extend its activiti
from New York to this city as a result of the fact
refugee steamers will now dock here because of
crowded facilities in New York, it is announced
Isaac A. Asofsky, executive director of BIAS.
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In the Palestine Homeland
The British officer commanding the 14th Jew'
Unit of the Buffs, stationed in Jerusalem, turn
over 26 pounds to the Jewish Agency's headquar
to be used for colonization of Jewish National Fu
Land which will be distributed to Jewish soldiers
the war. The funds were collected among the soldi
in the unit.
A campaign by extremist sections of the orthod
groups in the Yishuv against the "desecration" of
Sabbath by motion picture theaters that begin to
tickets and start their performances before nigh
on Saturday has precipitated several outbreaks
violence in Jerusalem.
Boake Carter, Once Accuse
As Anti-Semite,BecomesJe
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Noted Journalist and Radio Commentator Embraced
thodox Judaism a Year Ago, Yiddish Writer Reveals;
Fight for Jewish Causes Cited
$9,285,000 Expended for Relief in 5 Continents, Report
Shows; Aid to Occupied Countries Is Continued
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Condensed from Cables of the
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NEW YORK (JPS) — In a
startling "revelation" in the For-
ward, Yiddish daily, it • is an-
nounced that Boake Carter, fa-,
mous journalist, syndicate col-
umnist and radio commentator,
often charged with anti-Semi-
tism, has been, for the past year,
an Orthodox Jew observing all
the precepts of Judaism.
A. Almi, veteran
Yiddish
journalist and one of the few
men who knew of the reputed
conversion of Boake Carter, is
said to have been permitted by
Carter to make the revelation
because the staff of the New
York Daily Mirror and PM, New
York daily, had charged Carter
with being pro-Axis.
DENIES FAVORING AXIS
Denying that Carter is either
pro-Axis or anti-Semitic, Almi
writes: "The truth of the matter
is that Boake Carter, for a year,
has been an Orthodox, religious
Jew, who observes the laws of
Kashruth, the Sabbath and all
Jewish holidays. And not only he
alone, but his attractive, intel-
ligent wife, Dorothy, who (like
Carter) comes from Christian
stock. His sister, Sheila, is also
a Jewess:
"When one enters the Ca
home in Long Island one f
that the residents are Orthod
Jews. Moreover, Boake Ca
doei not satisfy himself w*
acting as a Jew. He fights
Judaism at every opportuni
Together with his closest fri
and co-worker, Rabbi Da
Horowitz, he fights for kosh
food in the Army, he fig
against missionary proselyt'
activity and he fights ag
anti-Semitism."
Delving into the backgro
of .the strange case, Almi alleg
that Carter was converted
Judaism because of two me
Rabbi David Horowitz, who lea
a group called "The Bible in t
Fand of Its Creators," and a J
from Jerusalem, called Mos
Gevuri, considered by_ his f
lowers another Moses.
FORMER "BRITISH ISRAEL
• Cartier, a former member
the "British Israelites," • believ
that the British people,
Scandinavians and the Am
cans were of the lost Ten Tri
of Israel. As a result of the
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