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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 20, 1942

Nazis Use Jewish Civilians
As Screen for Tank Attacks

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Captured German Admits Inhuman Tactics of Invaders in
Russia; 1,000 Jews Awaiting Death Saved
by "Partisans"; Other JTA News

KUIBYSHEV, (JTA)—German military authorities
have brought thousands of Jewish women, children and
aged men from the interior of Nazi-occupied Soviet terri-
tory for use as human screens behind which Nazi tank
units can advance, it was reported here this week on the
basis of testimony by a captured German prisoner, Ru-
dolph Hauptman, substantiated by a Red Army man, Ivan
Trojanowsky.

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Alfred Halmut, a private of the 23rd German tank division, who
was captured on the Mozdok front; told the Russian officers that
at Kharkov he had witnessed the massacre of13,000 Jews.
Russian Partisans Drive Nazis .,Baek
One thousand Jews, slated fore execution by the Nazis in Sim-
feropol, in the Crimea, were saved by a dariTig raid of a partisan
group which drove cff the Germans and recaptured a section of
the city, it was revealed by Mendel Luboshitsky, one of the rescipd
Jews, who arrived here this week.

U. S. Catholic Bishops Assail PeiSecution
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A vigorous protest againt "the cruel

indignities heaped upon the Jews in conquered countries" was
voiced here this week in a "statement on victory and peace" issued
by the Catholic Bishops and Archbishops of the United States. The
declaration was adopted at the annual general meeting of the
Catholic leaders and was released by the National Catholic Welfare
Conference. The Bishops also supported the protest against Jewish
persecutions in France issued sometime ago by prominent French
Catholic clergymen.
The statement said: "We feel a deep sense of revulsion against
the cruel indignities heaped upon the Jews in conquered countries
and upon defenseless people not of our faith."
Z: 0. A. Observes Brandeis' 86th Birthday
The 86th birthday of the late Supreme Court Justice Louis
D. Brandeis was observed here this week in the headquarters of
the Zionist Organization of America, which honored the memory
of the Jewish leader by publishing a collection of his addresses and
statements on • Jewish and Zionist problems in a volume entitled
"Brandeis on Zionism."

Says Jews Will Not Quit Poland

Dr. Henryk Strasburger, Polish Minister of Finance, who is
here to diseuss with American officials detailed plans with regard
to feeding the population of liberated Poland immediately after
the defeat of the Axis powers, this week declared at a press con-
ference that there will probably not be any emigration of Polish
Jews from post-war Poland.

Farmers' Land Seized in Galicia

LONDON, (JTA)—The Nati governor in Galicia has issued an
order instructing Jewish farmers in the district of Stanislawow to
transfer all their land and property to either German or Ukrainian
settlers, the Polish Government-in-Exile reported here this week.

HEARD in
the LOBBIES

by David Deutsch

(Copyright 1942 by Independent

Jewish Press Service, Inc.)

Congressional Chatter

Congress is an awfully inter-
esting place if you only take the
trouble to listen to what's said
there . . .- And you'd better lis-
ten with wide-open ears from
now on . . . Now just look at a
few highlights of only a couple
of days . . . Our old friend John
Rankin of Mississippi may be a
Democrat (with a big D) but he
was greatly encouraged by the
Republican landslide, for to him
it means that the American peo-
ple "are tired of the Frankfurt-
er bureaucracy." It was all part
of a speech denouncing Wendell
Willkie and sundry others who
are influenced by "certain alien
racial elements in this country
stirring , up race trouble among
the Negroes!' Rankin, he wants
you to know, is a special kind
of person. He is "not only an
American, but I am an Anglo-
Saxon," who belongs "to _ that
race that built our civilization,
the Christian civilization," in fact
to that "Christian civilization
built upon • the Ten Comand-
ments." Somebody ought to whis-
per to rank John Rankin where
those Ten Commandments came
from.
Why do they take the trouble
of shutting down some of those
subversive sheets when you can
get all the stuff you want of
that kind by reading the Con-
gressional Record? . . . Take that
juicy morsel inserted by Martin
L. Sweeney, still hanging on in
the House though repudiated by
the Ohio voters,. who showed
some discrimination any h o w.

Page Five

Sweeney republished a letter sent
to James Farley by former Con-
gressman John O'Connor of New
York, who consoled Farley for
the loss of the New York elec-
tions and referred to "some Mos-
cowitz" who "is going to ask you
to quit as state chairman. I don't
have to tell a Farley what to do
with the likes of him." .. . O'Con-
nor repeated, and the Congres-
sional Record reprinted the vile
slander on the President that he
had opposed Farley for Vice
President "because you were a
Catholic." And so, on and on.

While Rankin was referring to
the Government as "the Frank-
furter bureaucracy", Congress-
man Rich of Pennsylvania was
demanding to "get Mordecai Eze-
kiel out of Government." The
famous agricultural economist
had just been made assistant to
the War Production Board's -Vice
Chairman.
But don't get the idea that's
the whole of Congress. It isn't
For example, take the day when
New York Times' Sulzberger was
40 minutes away in Baltimore
shooting off about how wrong it
was for the Jews to be trying
to get arms to fight with the
United Nations . . . Harry Shep-
pard of California was telling the
House at the very same time that
Congress was being told that 18-
and 19-year-olds were essential
for the armed forces . "And
yet, strange as this may sound,
there are tens of thousands of
young men who have more -rea-
son to hate Hitler and who per-
haps have a greater desire to fight
Hitler than any other group of
people on earth, living right
there on the spot, and they are
not yet being utilized in this
struggle . . . I ifor one am con-
vinced that it would, indeed, be
very wise from a military point
of view, just from a moral point
of view, and intelligent from the
psychological point of view to
allow these men to organize their

In Lighter Veini

The Week's Best Stories

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Noah and the Stock Market

A Wall street broker, desiring

a clerk, asked the following
questioil on an examination,
"Who formed the first company?"
A bright youth, a bit puzzled
but not to be floored, wrote:
."Noah successfully floated a
company while the rest of the
world was in
His application was accepted.
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How Josef Hofmann Silenced a

Notorious Wag

The Wall Street Journal tells
the following story about the
noted pianist, Josef Hofmann:
After an important dinner,
Josef Hofmann was taking his
departure, when a- notorious wag
called out, "Hello, Hofmann.
Come back here a minute, won't
you?"
The celebrated pianist oblig-
ingly retraced his steps and stood
expectantly before the prankster.
With an' exaggerated air of se-
crecy the wag whispered, "I just
wanted to ask you how far you
would have gone if I hadn't
called you back." •
Hofmann moved not a muscle
of his face but in a voice clearly
audible to the large company
present, replied: "My dear sir,
there's not a person -in the world
I would rather oblige than you.
But, to tell the truth, I haven't
got five dollars in my pocket."

own army, which should be
known as the Jewish Army—
and let them fight."
Iraq Government has called
Prof. Fritz Bodenheimer, Hebrew
University botanist, to advise
Baghdad on agricultural matters.

Post-War Bill of Rights

A post-war "bill of rights" for German Jews, embodying a demand
for state aid to all returning refugees until they can rehabilitate
themselves, was made public here this week at a meeting called
to mark the fourth anniversary of the destruction of many syna-
gogues in Germany by the Nazis.

Polish Jews Flee to Spain

The Polish Government-in-Exile this week received information
that a number of Polish Jews managed to cross from unoccupied
France into Spain prior to the complete occupation by the Nazis of
the part of France which was under the administration of the Vichy
Government.
The Polish Information Bureau this week reported that morb
than 200 Polish doctors held a conference in Tel Aviv to discuss
medical tasks in post-war Poland.

Dutch Press Urges Mass-Protest

A campaign to bring mass pressure upon . the Nazi authorities
in Holland to halt the deportation of Jews from the country has
been started by the Netherland underground press, the Dutch news
agency Aneta reported here this week.

Quislings Issue List of Confiscations

STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—The first list of 585 Norwegian Jews
whose Property has been confiscated by the Quisling administration
following the arrest of the victims, was made public in Oslo this
week by the pro-Nazi Quisling government. Further lists will be
published before the end of the month. It is thought that the
number of Jews whose property has been taken over by the state
is even greater, since the official list only includes the names of
the heads of families.
All reports reaching here from Norway indicate that practically
every Jewish male has been arrested. Even Jewish and half-Jewish
professors of Oslo University have been sent to a camp.

3,000 Immigrants Will Enter Palestine

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Three thousand Jewish immigrants, to- .
gether with their ca=ves and children under the age of 18, will be
permitted to enter Palestine during the three-month period ending
December 31, it was announced here this week in an official order
appearing in the Palestine Gazette. One hundred non-Jewish im-
migrants will be admitted during the same period. The order also
provides for the admission of 1,000 Jewish refugee children from
France, if they can be extricated from that country and transported
to Palestine.

25,000 More Jews From Rumania

Twenty-five thousand more Jews were deported from Rumania
to Transnistria in the middle of October, it is reported in the
Bukarester Zeitung reaching here this week. Rumanian-Jewish
circles in Palestine have received information that six small boats
carrying 318 Jews recently left Rumanian harbors for unknown
destinations.

J. D. C. Agent to Study Iran Refugee Situation

Harry Viteles, manager of the Central Bank for Cooperative
Institutions has left Palestine for Teheran in behalf of the American
Joint Distribution Committee to investigate the situation of the
Jewish refugees from Poland now in Iran and to report to the J.
D. C. on the possibilities of aiding them.
At a mass-meeting in Tel Aviv this week, opening the drive for
medical relief to Russia conducted by the Palestine Victory League
for Russia, David Remez, general secretary of the Histadruth, an-
nounced that the Jews of Palestine are prepared not only to send
medical instruments and ambulances to the Russian people, but
also hundreds of physicians, despite the fact that the latter are
needed in Palestine.

Col. Patterson, '75, Visions "Eretz Israel"
LA JOLLA, Calif., (JTA)—The conviction that after the war
"Palestine will once again become Eretz Israel" was expressed here
by Col. John Henry Patterson, Commander of the Jewish Legion
during the last World War, who celebrated his 75th birthday this
week.

Dr. Wise Leaves Mexico

MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the
American Jewish Congress, left for the United States this week
after conferring with high Mexican Government officials and Jew-
ish leaders on matters of Jewish interest.

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