F-riday, July 30, 1943

I

THE JEWISH

Weekly Review of the News of the liVorld

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

President Roosevelt has asked the At-
torney-General and the heads of other
Government agencies "to give special at-
tention to the problem" of race riots in
this country, it was disclosed in a letter
sent by the President to Representative
Vito Marcantonio of New York.
More than $15,000 worth of food and
clothing has been sent to Jewish refugees
in the U.S.S.R. through the World Jewish
Congress, according to a statement re-
leased in New York by Congress head-
quarters. The organization is co-operating
in this work with the Jewish Agency for.
Palestine in Jerusalem and its representa-
tives in Teheran.
The War Department has released de-
tails of the 45-minute air battle over Gua-
dalcanal in which Second Lieutenant
Murray J. Shubin, of Allegheny County,
Pa., 26-year-old flier, downed five Japa-
nese Zeros plus one more probably de-
stroyed, the best score that has been re-
ported for any Army Air Forces fighter
pilot in one engagement against fighter
plane opposition. This action brought his
total up to seven victories and two prob-
ables.
The death in action of Boris Barkhash,
noted Russian-Jewish bibliographer, has
been reported in New York,
Capt. Edward Ellsberg, famous subma-
rine commander, has been awarded the
Legion of Merit by the Navy Department
for his successful salvaging of the ships
scuttled by the Italians at the Massawa
naval base in Eritrea in 1941.

American Jewry
Set New Record
In Fund Drives

1943 Called Most Successful
Year in History of Wel-
fare Movement

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds this week.
-reported that 1943 was the .most
successful year for fUnd-raiSing
campaigns in the history of the
Jewish welfare fund movement in
the United States.
Of 41 communities reporting
their final figures to the council,
all but six equalled or surpassed
their goals which were uniformly
higher than those set a year ago.
These campaigns raised 25.2 per-
cent more than last year.
Sixty-seven other communities,
still incomplete, have already
raised a total of $6,390,017 against
a final 1942 figure of $5,160,912, a
gain of 23.8 percent. A statement
issued by the United Jewish
peal said that 92 percent of the
complete campaigns have exceed-
ed their 1942 - accomplisliMents.
The upward trend was evident in
small, intermediate and large
rn unities.

King George Issues
Note for Jewish
Edition of Bible

Special. Copies Distributed
to 10,000 Jews Serving
in Canadian Forces

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- NEWS

MONTREAL, (J TA) — The
Canadian Jewish Congress this
week - announced that King
George "has graciously „consented
to grant a message for the spe-
cial edition of the Holy Scrip-
tures which is being distributed
to each of the 10,000 Jewish men
and• women in the Canadian war
services." The message reads:
"TO all serving in my forces
by sea, or land, or in the air,
and indeed, to all my people en-
gaged in the defense of the Realm
I commend the • reading of this
book. For centuries the Holy
Scriptures has been a wholesome
and 'strengthening influence in
our national life, and it behoves
us in these momentous days to
turn with renewed faith to this
Divine source of comfort and in-
spiration." This book is the most
recent in a series published for
theJewish Men in the services. •

Charges that "Army and other Federal
officials have accepted into our own cen-
sorship code" German regulations ban-
ning the sending of books or music by
Jews, refugees from Axis territory or anti-
fascists to American prisoners in Germany
and that our censorship officials also ban
many of these books in camps in this
country where Axis soldiers are held pris-
oner'were made by PM, liberal daily. "On
the other hand," PM states, "replies of
U. S. officials to questions by PM hint
pro-Nazi literature is permitted among our
Nazi captives."
Walter Lippmann's "U. S. Foreign Pol-
icy: Shield of the Republic," has received
the "imperative" war book award of the
Council on Books in wartime.
The name of Louis Marshall, distin-
guished American Jewish leader, will
float the seven seas with cargoes to Ameri-
can troops abroad, as a result of the
launching in Baltimore of the Victory ship,
Louis Marshall. The girl who broke the
bottle against the prow of the ship to
launch it was Ellen Marshall, grand-
daughter of the late Jewish lawyer and
president for many years of the American
Jewish Committee. Miss Marshall, daugh-
ter of James Marshall, is a reporter on the
New York tabloid, PM. ,
Dr. James Bernstein, representative of
the Hebrew Sheltering And Immigrant
Aid Society on the Directorate of the
HIAS-ICA Emigration Association, who
has been in New York for the past several
months, left to return to his post in Lisbon.

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Page Three

Mr. Roosevelt, Rabbi Wise
Discuss Plans to Aid Jews

President Expected to Send Leading American to Attend
Revitalized Intergovernmental Committee on Refu-
gees at Parley Here or in London

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Following a White House visit
this week during which he discussed with President Roose-
velt measures to prevent the extermination of the remaining
Jews in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise revealed that the revitalized intergovernmental corn-
mittee on refugees proposed by the recent Bermuda Confer-
ence shortly will meet either here or in London.
Dr. Wise added that he understood that "some leading
American will represent our country at that Intergovern-
mental Commission, which is to seek to find an asylum for
Hitler refugee victims of all faiths and races."

"The President," Dr. Wise said, "maintains a profound and
searching interest in these victims of Hitler who are unable
to meet him on the battlefield as our soldiers are doing in Sicily,
but must die unarmed and incapable of self-defense as Hitler
and Goebbels decreed."
(The President reiterated his stand in his message to the
Emergency Conference to Save the Jews of Europe; meeting
in New York, in which he said the "government of the United
States is greatly interested in the plight of the Jews. in Europe
and will not cease in its attempts to save those who can be
rescued until the Nazi power is forever crushed.")
Rabbi Wise also revealed that he had learned recently from "an
anti-Fascist representative" that the total number of Jews massa-
cred by the Nazis has already reached more than 3,000,000. Soviet
estimates, he said, are even higher.
"I find it significant," Dr. Wise commented, "that the Presi-
dent has just made former Ambassador Herbert Pell his Amer-
ican representative on a Commission of the United Nations
which is to try and bring to justice those of the Nazi-Fascist
countries who may be found guilty of responsibility for the
foulest of all crimes in wartimes—namely, the slaughter of
civilian masses. I feel that the Commission, including Ambassa-
dor Pell, is likely to organize itself in the near future."

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