THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 16, 1943

Jewish Center Anti-Semitic Agitation
Reported Rising in London
Activities

War Workers Give
Seder at Center

The War Workers group of
the. Jewish Community Center
will sponsor a pre-Passover
Seder this Sunday, 6 to 8 p. m.
in the Auditorium of the Center.
There will be supper, including
wine and Passover ceremonies
in connection with the seder.
Following the Seder, the din-
ers are invited to attend the
Passover Holiday Hop, from 9
to 12 p. in. Those attending the
Seder will be admitted to the
dance at a reduced fee.
Reservations should be made
at the Center for the Seder.
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PASSOVER EVE DANCE
ON SUNDAY EVENING

Bobby Grayson and his Top
Hat Musicians will play a return
engagement at the Jewish Com-
munity Center this Sunday ev-
ening. He will appear for the
seventh holiday hop, a Passover
dance, sponsored by the Center
social committee. Joseph Kwas-
elow is chairman of publicity.
Frances Rotman directs hosts
and hostesses.
The dance will be held in the
main auditorium of the Center,
Woodward at - Holbrook. The
auditorium will be suitably
decorated with Passover themes,
under the supervision of and
executed by Norma Appel and
Gwen Adelson.
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JR. PASSOVER PROGRAM
AT CENTER ON SUNDAY

Kopstein to Speak
At Congress Rally

Rep. Dickstein's Plea
Fails to Stir House

WASHINGTON (JPS)—Warn-i

President of- Midwest Region
ing the Christian world that the
East London Teachers Group Adopts Resolution Deploring To Address Men's and Jew is the first target of nazism,
Women's Events April 28
"but you are next, you Catholics,
Acts; Shutters of Shops Painted With
you
Protestants," Rep. Samuel
Max
Kopstein
of
Chicago,
Obscene Slogans

LONDON, (JTA)—In a new outbreak of anti-Semitic
activity, the shutters of Jewish shops in the Bethnal Green
section of London this week were painted with obscene
anti-Jewish slogans and the letter "J". Sidewalks in front
of the shops were similarly defaced. In Stepney, a Jewish
councillor, Mr. Fine, who introduced a resolution urding the
government to outlaw anti-Semitism, reported today that
he had received abusive threatening letters.
At the same time the East London Teachers Association
adopted a resolution deploring the growth of anti-Semitism
in that area. The National Council for Civil Liberties an-
nounced that it will hold a conference on April 17 to discuss
the problem.

Report Anti-Semitism in Service Units

NEW YORK, (JPS)—Purported evidence "that there are nu-
merous individuals, some in command of important units" of the
United States armed forces, who commit anti-Semitic acts is pre- -
sented in a current issue of In Fact, liberal weekly news-letter.
The following examples are cited:
"At Hamilton Field, Calif. officers are required to fill out a
personnel card. There is no blank on it for stating one's religion,
as there is in the Naval Reserve application blank. However, 'officers
are questioned about their religion, and answers are placed at
bottom of personnel cards, under 'Remarks.'
"An officer with a purely Anglo-Saxon name" reported that
when a fellow-officer, compelled to state his religion, answered-
"Agnostic," the interviewer insisted - that this was "Atheism" and
the officer finally received his identification tag with the initial
"H" in the corner, meaning Hebrew. .

Nazis Massacre Jewish Soldiers

KUIBYSHEV, (JTA)—A report of -how the Nazi military au-
thorities discriminate -against Jews in their treatment of war pri-
soners was received here by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
from Alexander Shapiro, a Jewish Red Army man who was a
captive of the Germans for several weeks until he escaped.
As soon as the Germans had rounded up all the prisoners,
they separated the Jews and non-Jews and ordered the former to
dig a large trench, Shapiro said. When they had finished digging,
all the Jews were shot and their bodies dumped into the pit.

Turkey Willing to Admit 30,000 Refugees

Under the direction of Miss
Elsa Berger, the Junior Program
will sponsor a Passover Party
this Sunday, 2 to 4 p. m., in the
Butzel Hall. There will be
games, refreshments and a Pass-
over program.

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Giving the State Department as his
source of information, Representative Will Rogers, Jr., of Calif.,
this week declared here that the Turkish government has agreed
to give temporary haven to 30,000 refugees from Rumania and
Bulgaria who would later be sent to Palestine and other coun-
tries.
State Department officials said that they could give no informa-
tion on the matter "at the moment."

MOTHERS' CLUBS HEAR
ABOUT VICTORY GARDENS

Jewish Sergeant
Gets 5th Award

The topic for discussion dur-
ing the coming week for the
Mothers' Clubs meetings will
deal with "Victory Gardens at
Home—or a Mothers' Club. Unit
of the proposed Woman's Land
Army to save the fruit and vege-
table crops for the United Na-
tions." The discussions will take
place at the following meetings:
Linwood-Dexter Club, Wed-
nesday, 1:30 p. m., at Bnai Moshe,
Dexter at Lawrence; Twelfth
Street Club, Thursday, 8 p.
at Assembly Hall, 9125 12th St.

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Commander of Patrol Plane
Wins 2 Citations for Bat-
tle of Midway

NEW YORK (JPS)—Sgt. The-
odore L. Billen, 20, of Pough-
keepsie, N. Y., has set a record
for awards received by American
Jewish servicemen, having re-
ceived five decorations for "out-
standing ability and devotion to
duty" as an aerial engineer and
gunner. He holds the D. F. C.,
the Air. Medal, the Purple Heart
New York, Georgia
and two citations given members
of the famous 19th Bombardment
Ask Jewish. Homeland
Squadron.
NEW YORK.—Declaring that
For "conspicuous gallantry and
the "sufferings of the Jews in intrepid service as Commander
Europe under the heel of Axis
dictators cry out to the enlight-
ened conscience of the United
Nations" and that the "need for
a Jewish homeland for stricken
and persecuted Jewish masses"
has become "not merely a matter
of justice but of dire necessity,"
both Houses of the. Legislatures
of New York and Georgia last
week unanimously adopted a res-
olution which called for the es-
tablishment of a Jewish home-
land in Palestine.

of a Patrol Plane" during the
battle of Midway last summer,
the Navy Cross and the Navy
Silver Star have been awarded
to Lt. Allan Rothenberg, 24, of
Washington. Other awards listed
by the Jewish Welfare Board
went to Sgt. Jack Ascher, 21, of
Brooklyn, who was decorated
with the D. F. C., and to Lt. Mar-
tin M. Strauss, 20, of New York,
who received the Air Medal.
The weekly Honor Roll com-
piled by the J. W. B. cites the
following American Jewish serv-
icemen as among those killed in
action: Lt. Victor H. Karpass, 34,
of Chicago, Medical Corps.; Pvt.
Abraham Isaac Shapiro, 24, of
Dorchester, Mass., killed in ac-
tion on Guadalcanal, and Pvt.
Clifford A. Baum, 21, of the
Bronx, killed in Africa.

president of the Midwest Region
of . the American Jewish Con-
gress, will be the guest speaker
at a meeting for men and women
sponsored jointly by the Detroit
Women's Division and the
American Jewish Congress Coun-
cil to be held at the Rose Sittig
Cohen Auditorium, Wednesday
evening, April 28.
Philip Slomovitz, editor of The
Jewish News, will give high-
lights of world news. Miss Leah
Crohn will present a group of
songs.
This meeting is the first of a
series of gatherings of the Coun-
cil and members of the Women's
Division and their husbands who
are invited to this meeting. The
Council is seeking to stimulate
individual membership_ in the
Congress.
- Representatives of organiza-
tions are urged to invite the
members they represent, both
men and women, to this meeting.
Mr. Kopstein will discuss the
importance of individual mem-
bership in the Congress move-
ment, which is assuming an im-
portant role in world events at
the present time. The AmeriCan
Jewish Congress has negotiated
with world leaders on behalf of
war-stricken masses of European
Jewry and is actively supporting
the General Jewish Assembly so
that a unified approach to Jew-
ish problems may be presented
for consideration.
Leon Kay is president of the
Congress Council and Mrs. Perry
Burnstine is president of the
Women's Division. Mrs. Samuel
Katkin is in charge of the social
hour which will follow the meet-
ing.

Dickstein of New York uttered
on the floor of the House a stir-
ring plea for American protest
against anti-Semitic persecution
and immediate action to save its
Jewish victims. His address
brought one sympathetic re-
sponse, from Louis J. Capozzoli
of New York.

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