Friday, Noveirber f2, 1941 Roosevelt Cites Interest In Fate of European Jewry President Indicates Government Definitely Anxious to Help Rescue Jews in Occupied Areas; Awaits Hull's Return from Moscow With Report WASHINGTON (JTA)—President Rosevelt, at his press conference this week, indicated that the U. S. government is definitely interested in the fate of the Jews in occupied Europe. The problems ,of rescuing them and of sending them immediate relief are merely questions of ways and means, he said. The President was asked whether anything had been decided at the tri-partite conference in Moscow about the Jews in Nazi Europe. He replied that he would not know until the return of Secretary of State Hull. The heart is in the right place, President Roosevelt remarked, but it is a question of ways and means. He added that the same is true of sending relief. (Joint Resolutions were introduced on Tuesday in the U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, calling for immediate action to rescue the Jews of Europe from the Nazi terrorists. Senator Homer Ferguson was one of the sponsors of the Senate Resolution. The bills presented call for a program which would make it clear that the United Nations' Statement on Atrocities also applies to the Jewish people, and calls for the setting up of reservations in European countries for Jews who are to be saved from Nazism, with the intention of their eventual settlement in Palestine and other countries). Hopes Allies Follow Russian Policy Towards Jews NEW YORK (JTA)—Lauding the outlawing of anti-Semitism by Soviet Russia and the complete equality enjoyed by Jews there, James N. Rosenberg, addressing a meeting arranged by the National, Council of American-Soviet Friendship this week, to celebrate 10 years of American-Soviet diplomatic relations, expressed the hope that "the Soviet policy towards minorities will be a pattern for the United Nations." The meeting also heard a message from Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, director of the Agro-Joint, who established the Jewish colonies in the Crimea and in the Ukraine, emphasizing that now, when these sections of the USSR are being liberated from the Nazis by the Russian Army, "we look forward hopefully to the active resumption of the great Argo-Joint work, in order that we of America may aid in ri,building the torn and ravaged agricultural, industrial and economic life of the Soviet Union." Page Three THE JEWISH NEWS Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) PALESTINE Special ceremonies marked the laying of the cornerstone for a new Galilean settlement named for Leon Blum, former Premier 'of France . . . The settlement, hitherto known as Naame, the name of a neighboring Arab village, was established by the Kibbutz Anglo-Balti, consisting of members of Habonim, American Labor Zionist Youth organization, and Chalut- zim from Russia, Canada, South Africa and the Baltic states. Some 3,000 American Servicemen and women Visit Palestine monthly Under the auspices of the American Red Cross, says the newspaper Davar. The area of wheat grown in Palestine rose between 1939 and 1941 by 400,000 dunams, or a rise of 20 per cent compared with peacetime, and it is estimated that in the past two years further substantial areas have been added, says a report by the Palestine government Department of Agriculture. Barley-growing areas, how- ever, increased by only 5 per cent and of millet by much less. The area of lentils and legumes was increased almost three- fold. During 1941, grains covered an area of six million dunams as against 5,400,000 in 1939. AMERICA Urging that President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull declare their op- position to the White Paper and issue "a forthright statement" on the position of the United States in regard to Palestine, Congressman Emanuel Celler of New York warned, in a radio address, that failure to do so "gives rise to the suspicion that we may be co-conspirators with the British Colonial Office in applying to Palestine and the Levant 'power politics' and the policy of 'divide and rule.' " The silence of the Administration "breeds despair," stated the Congressman. Re- calling that Robert Worth Bingham, ap- pointed Ambassador to Britain in 1933, had served notice to the British Foreign Office "that no change in the government of Palestine can take place without the previous consent" of the United States, Representative Celler expressed wonder- ment that "today, when the MacDonald White Paper so drastically contradicts the terms of the Convention, our State De- partment maintains its silence. Why does it so viciously destroy the hope for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews? Are we to follow slavishly the policy of the British Colonial Office? Shall Americans make no protest against the rape of Palestine? What politi- cal pawn is Palestine that it must be twice betrayed?" Representative William P. Elmer, Mis- souri Democrat and member of the House Immigration Committee, declared that "nearly every nation of Europe has chased out the Jews . . . It has been so widespread there must have been compelling reasons for their actions," while debating a bill which would void the Chinese Exclusion Act. OVERSEAS The Parizer Zeitung, pro-Nazi sheet, has predicted that Paris will be "Judenrein" before the arrival of Christmas. Two hundred and thirty Jews were killed by Nazi and Croat troops, in the city of Spalato, which was reoccupied after Yugoslav guerilla forces were ousted. British Military Commander Rejects Arms Trial Appeal Entire Yishuv Stops Work for Two Hours in Protest Against Slander, Following Confirmation of Sentences Against 2 Jewish Defendants JERUSALEM (JTA)—The conviction of Leib Sirkin, Abraham Rachlin and Eliahu Sacharov for alleged compli- city in a gun running conspiracy in Palestine has been con- firmed by the General Officer Commanding British troops in the Middle East, it was announced this week. The GOC also denied the appeals of . Christopher Harris and Charles Stoner, two British soldiers who are alleged to have sold arms to Rachlin and Sirkin. Attorneys for the Jewish defendants had appealed for reversal - of the sentences of 10 years imprisonment imposed on Sirkin and seven years on Rachlin and Sacharov. Yishuv Stops Work In Protest Against Slanders JERUSALEM. (Palcor)—The entire Yishuv stopped work for two hours on Nov. 3 in protest against the allegations made against Palestinian- Jewry and the Jewish Agency at the Jerusalem arms trials. The stoppage affected all work except that connected with the war effort. In its proclamation to all Jew=s to cease work, the Vaad Leumi declared that the stoppage was in protest against "slanders" against the Yishuv and its supreme institutions voiced at the recent arms trials and the confirmation of the sentences against the Jewish de- fendants." Sirkin and Rachlin were sentenced on Sept. 26, and Sacharoff was sentenced on Oct. 7. An Arab villager, Abed Mussa Shamali, tried by a civil court early in October for the illegal possession of arms, received a sen- tence of six weeks. Believes 100,000 to 500,000 Jews Alive in Poland LONDON, (JTA)—Emphasizing that it is difficult to estimate the number of Jews who, remain alive in occupied Poland, Edward Warszawski, the first Jew to reach London from Warsaw after the battle in the ghetto, this week told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that "it is possible that that there are still in Poland today between 100,000 and 500,000 Jews." Here's the Fellow They're All Talking About The gentleman who, in the short space of four weeks, has put Detroit back "on the map" of the musical world; the man whose readings of the works of the Masters have caused critics and layman alike to forecast, for this home town of ours, "one of the outstanding musical organizations of the country" . .. Karl Krueger, musical director and conductor of the new Detroit Symphony Orchestra. 20,000 Have 245,000 Will Nearly 20,000 Detroiters already have come and seen, and heard, and departed the Masonic Temple auditorium feeling and knowing, as Auerbach expressed it, "that music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." And, before the current season of musical events already programmed comes to its conclusion, more than a quarter of a million Detroiters will have acclaimed the new Detroit Symphony Orchestra, as has been forecast, "one of the genuinely great orchestras of the world." Don't miss the history-making events which wins for this great civic organization, its international reputation. Make Thursday Night "Symphony Night" COME . . . SEE . . . and HEAR that which is now the most talked about feature Seek Whereabouts of 53,000 Greek Jews TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An appeal to the International Red Cross to ascertain the fate of the 53,000 Salonika Jews vato were deported from Greece to unknown destinations in Eastern Europe early this year, was voiced this week in a resolution adopted here by a meet- ing of the Greek-Jewish Settlers Association called to mark the third anniversary of the invasion of their homeland. Another resolu- tion adopted by the meeting urged Turkey to grant visas to Jewish refugees from Greece who wish to come to Palestine. on Detroit's entertainment program . . the weekly Thursday evening concerts by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. If you feel, after hearing this great organiza- tion, that you would like to hear all the remaining 14 concerts, arrange for season tickets as some 3,500 other folks have done. Arab Politicians Here Linked to Subversives You may still obtain season tickets for the 14 concerts yet to come at pre-season rates, LESS the cost of the four concerts already performed. Telephone soon, however, because two sections are now completely sold out for the entire season NEW YORK (JPS)—Peter George and H. I. Katibah of the Arab 'National League have worked in concert with the notorious American Fascists, George Deatherage and Henry D. Allen, acting as liaison between American fascist groups and Mexico's Golden Shirts, it is alleged in an article by Joseph Roos in the German language weekly, Aufbau. Mr. Roos reveals that Allen defrayed the expenses of eight Arabs who in 1938 picketed the United Palestine Appeal Conference at the Hotel Mayflower in Washington. Allen acted in behalf of Mrs. Leslie Fry, alias Shishmareff, alias Shishmarova, now a fugitiVe from justice, and her associate, Conrad Chapman, alias Warren Weston. Mr. Roos states that there are photostatic copies of correspon- dence between George Deatherage and H. I. Katibah, Peter George's associate in the Arab National League. More World News on Pages 6, 7, 10, 13, 14 TICKETS and others are selling out rather rapidl). Tickets for individual concerts may be reserved, two weeks in advance, by mail or telephone. Prices range from 85c to $2.75. Phone COlumbia 4870 or address your reservation requests to . . . Detroit Symphony Orchestra MASONIC TEMPLE Detroit, I, Michigan