Page Two 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. * • * 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. • * • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • 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. • • * 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. • • • 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. • * • "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. * • 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. • • .,• 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." • • • 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- Continued on Page 15), 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. . • • • 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." • • • 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. • 41. • 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 . 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 • Condensed from Cables of the - 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 (Continued on Page 15)