Nig. Two 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 • 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.