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THE FEDERATION JEWISH NEWS -
Friday. September 25, 1942
Jewish Community Backs
War Chest
CWar Chests Increase— Record Drive Covers
300 Since Pearl Harbor All Local Jewish Causes
By ALLEN T. BURNS
Executive Vice-President, Community Chests and Councils, Inc.,, and
Director of National Budget Committee for War
Relief Appeals
What War Bonds are to the armament program, the new
War Chests are to the voluntary services which help "keep the home
front strong" or reach through the dire human needs among our
Allies. Moreover, they have a native American lineage as channels
for the national purpose. Descended from the War Chests of World
War I, through our modern Community Chests, this rising generation
promises to outrange their forbears.
Set Record Objective
They have now set an unprecedented task for themselves this
coming year—a goal of more than $175,000,000 for the Community
Chest and War Chest cities of the country to meet local requirements
and foreign relief appeals.
With expanding claims on our domestic services, why this
rapid conversion of established Community Chests into War Chests?
With admitted inadequacy of the best that voluntary giving can do
for our Allies, why the popularity of war relief appeals in virtually
every city and hamlet in the United States?
America's Will-to-Victory
The first answer to both these questions lies in the will-to-
victory of the 11,000,000 average Americans who, in peacetime,
give to Community Chest drives. The second, and almost equally
potent answer, is that over 600 American communities have a well-
established habit of giving and planning through self-directed, uni-
fied mechanisms .. . For them to resort to the war-chest pattern is
a sort of community version of what the psychologists call a "con-
ditioned reflex."
Tonic to the Spirit
Another characteristic reflex of this sort is the traditional Amer-
ican response to suffering anywhere in the world ; especially when
A. summary of the current relief needs created by the war
has been prepared by the Detroit Community Fund to indicate the
great responsibility that rests upon the entire city in launching its
gigantic $5,800,000 War Chest.
Participation of the Allied Jewish Campaign in the War Chest
was decided upon by the joint boards of directors of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation and the Detroit Service Group on Wednesday.
USO Included in Quota
The War Chest will cover all the 80 agencies of the Detroit
Community Fund, including the Jewish agencies. These organiza-
tions provide for family services and care of the aged, sick and child-
ren; protective work, community centers and youth services.
Among the major agencies included in the War Chest quota
is United Service Organizations. The Jewish Welfare Board is one
of the six national organizations affiliated with the USO.
War Relief Funds
War relief funds included in the War Chest are: Queen
Wilhelmina Fund, Greek War Relief Association, British War
Relief Society, United China Relief, Russian War Relief, War
Prisoners' Aid of the Y.M.C.A., Polish American Council and
United Jewish Appeal (American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee
Service).
Inclusion of the Allied Jewish Campaign automatically places
all Jewish educational, recreational and relief agencies in the drive.
pleas for help reach us from our Allies in arms. More than that, we
know that over and above relief from pain and hunger is the tonic
to the spirit which comes from knowing that there are fellow human
beings with the means, the strength and the will to help.
That, in its simplest terms, is why American communities will
continue to give to war relief appeals; why Community Chests will
increasingly transform themselves into War Chests.
World Wide News at a Glance
Vilna Completely Judenrein
After Fourteen Centuries
BERN-4-JTA)—The city of Vilna, where. Jews have
been living since the 14th century, is now completely
"judenrein", according to a report published this
week in Die Nation, a Swiss publication.
The last 14,000 Jews who were permitted to re-
main in the Vilna ghetto—because the Germans con-
sidered them "useful elements"—after the Nazi mas-
sacre of 60,000 Jews there during the two-week po-
grom which started May 7 and ended May 20, have
been deported, the report says. The suspicion exists
that they, too, were killed after being taken from
the ghetto. Most of these 14.000 were doctors, engin-
eers and highly-skilled artisans •
The Deutsche Zeitung, a Nazi paper which
reached here this week from the Baltic countries,
reports that spotted typhus is now raging throughout
the Vilna district.
In Nazi-Occupied Countries
Slovakians Threatened for Aiding Jews
On the American Front
Refugee Visitors May Seek Jobs
WASHINGTON—Thousands of refugees who entered
this country as visitors or students will be able to take
jobs without special government approval, Attorney
General Francis Biddle announced this week.
Commissioner Clarifies Application of Law
for Aliens in Armed Forces
NEW YORK (JTA)—All non-citizens in the armed
forces who entered the United States legally can become
naturalized American citizens 90 days after being in-
ducted, regardless of whether or not their remaining
in the United States after entry was legal, according
to an interpretation of the provisions of the Second
War Powers Act received by the American Committee
for Protection of Foreign Born from Earl G. Harrison,
United States Commissioner of Immigration and
Naturalization.
The American Committee for Protection of Foreign
Born will seek a further change to enable any alien in
the U. S. armed forces to become a citizen regardless of
whether his entry into the country was legal or not.
Bars Discriminatory Advertisements
ZURICH (JTA) — Non-Jews in Slovakia were
warned this week that they will be imprisoned for aid-
ing Jews to evade registering as ordered by the Slo-
vakian Minister of Interior. So far, only 4,900 Jews in
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, have registered.
The Calvinist priest, M. Sedivy, of. the Slovakian
town of Nitra, has been taken into "protective custody"
on the charge that he baptised 717 Slovakian Jews with-
out any religious preparation, merely to save them from
being among the 53,000 Jews already deported from the
coun try.
NEW YORK (JTA)—"Parents' Magazine", publica-
tion on child guidance, this week announced that hence-
forth it will refuse to publish any advertising copy in
which the terms "restricted", "selected guests," etc.,
appear. George J. Hecht. publisher of the magazine,
stated that spreading such prejudicial advertisements
"on the pages of reputable magazines is, we feel. not
in the interest of the development of the best demo-
cratic institutions."
4,000 Aged Jews Deported to Therezin
War Record Praised in Massachusetts
LONDON (JTA)—Four thousand Jews between 65
and 85 years of age were deported from Germany and
Nazi-held countries in Western Europe last month and
reached the portress prison of Therezin in Czechoslov-
akia Aug. 15, according to information received by the
Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile here.
Police Measures Against Anti-Jewish
Propaganda Asked in Sweden
STOCKHOLM (JTA)—The Swedish press, consist-
ently combatting Nazi attempts to stimulate anti-Jewish
feelings in the country, this week issued a demand that
the police authorities prohibit Swedish Nazis from par-
ading the streets with placards carrying anti-Semitic
slogans.
Ghettos in Norway and Brussels
The German occupation authorities in Norway have
decided to establish a ghetto for the estimated 1.300
Jews in the country along the shores of one of Nor-
way's famed fjords.
Rabbi, 10 Others Seized in Oslo
Ten prominent Jews, including Chief Rabbi Samuel,
Weer arrested in Oslo this week by the Gestapo, and
many Jews were arrested in other Norwegian cities in
an extensive campaign against the Jewish papulation of
Norway launched by the Nazi occupation authorities.
Rabbi Samuel and the others have been charged by
the Gestapo with, espionage. The mass arrests of Jews
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LYNN, Mass., (JTA)—Dedicating a service flag in
honor of 320 Jewish boys of Lynn now serving in the
armed forces, Attorney General Robert T. Bushnell of
Massachusetts emphasized that American Jews in this
total war are living up to their tradition. He pointed
out that the 320 young men in the service represent
2,500 Jewish families in the city of Lynn.
Shofar Blown in Cathedral Rites
BOSTON—An extraordinary recognition of Rosh
Hashanah marked an inter-faith ceremony, probably
unique in the history of American religious life, when
the Shofar was blown this week from the steps of the
Cathedral of St. Paul. Rabbis and Christian clergymen
joined in the unusual service.
is considered here as an indication of the Nazis' fear
of a possible Allied invasion. of Norway.
700 Arrested in Bucharest
GENEVA (JTA)—The Berlin radio this week an-
nounced the arrest of more than 700 Jews in Bucharest.
It also reported that Jews in Rumania who continue to
employ "Aryan" servants will be sentenced to two
years imprisonment under regulations issued by the
Rumanian authorities. Travelers from Rumania tell
harrowing stories of the fate of the tens of thousands
of Jews deported to Transnistria. They are convinced
that the pews in Transnistria will all die shortly.
Condensed from Cables of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
32,216 Jewish Soldiers Died
In Poland, 61,000 Captured
LONDON (JTA)—A total of 32,216 Jewish sol-
diers in the Polish Army were killed during the
German invasion of Poland in September, 1939, it has
been revealed here by Dr. Ignacy Schwarzbart, one
of the two Jewish members of the Polish National
Council, on the basis of data compiled by his office.
Mr. Schwarzbart
•
also established that GI,000 Jew-
ish officers and soldiers were taken prisoner by the
Germans during the same period. The Jews consti-
tuted 12 per cent of the Polish armed forces in Russia
which are now being transported to the Middle East-
ern front.
In Democratic Countries
Bulgaria Limits Living Quarters
ISTANBUL (JTA)—The Sofia radio announced this
week that the Bulgarian Government has issued hous-
ing regulations for Jews which provide that a Jewish
family of two is entitled to one room, a family of four
to two rooms, and families of more than four persons
may occupy a maximum of three rooms. At the same
time the Sofia authorities ordered all Jews to surrender
radio sets to the police.
Polish Jews, 18 to 65, to Be
Deported
BERN—All Jews in Nazi-held Poland aged between
18 and 65 will be deported to devastated sections of
Nazi-occupied Russian territory, it is announced in the
Krakauer Zeitung reaching here from Poland.
2,000 Polish Jews Leave Russia
LONDON (JTA)—More than 2,000 civilian Jews
from Poland who were stranded in Russia have been
permitted by the Russian authorities to leave the coun-
try and were included in the second transport of Polish
civilians ;which recently reached Iran, Dr. Ignacy
Schwarzbart, Jewish member of the Polish National
Council, announced this week.
Chief Rabbi of England Taken Ill
The Rosh Hashanah services here were marred by
the fact that Chief Rabbi Hertz took sick immediately
after delivering his sermon in the Hendon Synagogue
and had to be removed to his home where he remained
in bed. Physicians report that he is suffering from the
emotional strain resulting from reports of the tortures
of Jews in Nazi-held Europe.
Jewish Captain Kills 1700 Nazis
KUIBYSHEV (JTA)—The Russian press this week
devotes much space to descriptions of heroic acts by
Jews on the Russo-German front, featuring especially
the case of Capt. Moshe Ladsun, commander of an
artillery unit which destroyed 14 Nazi tanks, 51 cannons
and annihilated more than 1,700 German soldiers.
Yankel Cohn, a former Minsk tailor, was blinded
on the battlefield, but, nevertheless, succeeded in saving
a Russian division from being surrounded by the enemy.
Holyday Prayers for Nazi Defeat
The synagogues here were crowded on Rosh Has-
hanah and Yom Kippur, mostly with elderly Jews pray-
ing for the defeat of Hitlerism and for their sons and
daughters who are now fighting the Nazis at the front.