Friday, December 3, 1943

THE JEWISH NEWS

Reform Jews Oppose White
Paper, Ask Hate Mail Ban

Rabbi Cisendrath Calls Upon Synagogues and Rabbis Affil-
iated with Union of American Hebrew Congregations
to Urge Congress to Act on Two Issues

CINCINNATI, O.—Presidents of 308 congregations comprising
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, as well' as the 254
rabbis associated with the U.A.H.C., were called upon by. Rabbi
Maurice N. Eisendrath, new director of the liberal Jewish body, to
express opposition to the British White Paper and to urge Con-
gress to enact legislation designed to - ban from the mails material
apt to fan racial or religious hatred.

The U.A.H.C. director enclosed with his letter copies of House
Resolution 2328 and Joint Resolution 49. The former, referred to
the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, proposes to add
Sec. 335a to Title 18 of the Criminal Code so that "all papers,
pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, books, pictures and writings
of any kind, containing any defamatory and false statements which
tend to expose persons designated, identified or characterized there-
in by race or religion . . . to hatred, contempt, ridicule, or obliquy
are hereby declared non-mailable matter and shall not be con-
veyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any
letter carrier." This proposal provides a penalty of imprisonment
for five years, or a fine of $5,000, or both fine and imprisonment.

Joint Resolution 49, referred to the same committee, seeks to
supplement Section 211 of the Criminal Code and thus to declare
non-mailable "all papers, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, books,
pictures and writings . . . designed or adapted or intended to cause
racial or religious hatred or bigotry or intolerance."

Reports Confirm Murder of Kiev Jews

Reports received this week from Kiev authorities corroborate
cables that have been published in The Jewish News that 50,000
to 80,000 Jews in Kiev have been murdered by the Nazis in the
last two years.

The Kiev Atrocity Commission has informed American,
British and Russian newspaper correspondents that the massacre
occurred two years ago in a ravine near Kiev. When the Nazis
recently retreated, they exhumed these bodies and burned them to
destroy the evidence.

unter College
nter-Faith
enter Opened

0,000 Jews Serve
n British Forces,
,000 in the RAF

LONDON, (JTA)—Fifty thou-
and Jews are serving in Brit-
in's armed forces-8,000 in .the
oyal Air Force—it was dis-
losed this week by British mili-
ry authorities with publication
f a pamphlet designed to .com-
at anti-Semitism. Entitled "Are
e United Nations," the pamph-
t, which is issued by the Army
ureau of Current Affairs, points
t that the 50,000 Jews consti-
te 12 per cent of the 400,000
ews of Britain, including worn-
n and children.

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Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

Despite the protests of Jewish leaders
and labor organizations, Patrolman James
L. Drew, who has been up on charges in
the Police Department because of the
possession of thousands of pamphlets,
stickers and books of an alleged anti-
Semitic nature, and on whom a verdict
has still not yet been returned, is still on
his beat in Brownsville, a large Jewish
section of Brooklyn, it was reported by
Victor Riesel in the New York Post.
The United states must "do its share
in providing asylum _ for Jews escaping
from the Nazis, Mayor Fiorello H. La-
Guardia of New York said, speaking be-
fore the House Foreign Affairs Committee
holding hearings on the Rogers-Baldwin
Resolution which urges President Roose-
velt to create a commission to save the
Jewish people of Europe from extinction.
A special prayer from Rabbi Isaac Her-
zog, Chief Rabbi of Palestine, addressed
. to Senator Edward Johnson of Colorado,
was received at the Emergency Committee
to Rescue the Jewish People of Europe. It
urges the senator and his "colleagues in
the United States to a supreme effort to
rescue the remnant of Israel given over
to cruel torment and death in the clutches
of the Nazi fiends in human guise."
Herman Ullstein, ousted by Hitler from
control of the giant publishing house, Ull-
stein Verlag, died here at the age of sixty-
eight. He was one of • five brothers who
controlled the largest chain of newspapers
and magazines in Germany. Although op-
posed to Nazism, they tried to co-operate

with Hitler at first but were ousted in an
anti-Semitic drive in 1934 even though
they had been converted from Judaism.
The scheduled broadcast 4 of Ex-King
Carol of Rumania from Mexico City, was
cancelled on orders of the Office of Cen-
sorship. King Carol installed Rumania's
first Fascist regime and was responsible
for Rumania's "Nuremburg Laws" bati-
ning Jews from public office.
Charges by Gedalia Bublick, leader of
the Mizrachi, Zionist Orthodox organiza-
tion, that the American Jewish Committee
had in its possession a "war plan" against
Orthodoxy and Zionism in the United
States, were denounced as "no truer than
the Protocols of Zion" in a statement by
Dr. John Slawson, executive director of
the American Jewish Committee.

PALESTINE

An Arab villager of the Gaza district
was sentenced by military tribunal in
Jerusalem to two years' imprisonment for
the illegal possession of a German Mauser
pistol which he had bought from a British
soldier for three pounds. (About $12.)
The Palestine government on Nov. 30
lifted completely the ban imposed on nine
Hebrew dailies and one German-language
daily for their reports on the Ramat Hako-
vesh incidents. The papers, rejecting an
earlier government plan to permit them
to reappear according to a stagger system,
had declared their intention to appear
simultaneously on the day the last ban is
lifted.

(See Also Page 14)

In the Interest of Detroit Music Lovers and in Collaboration with the

ome of President's Mother
Dedicated as Religious
Meeting Place

(Pictures on Page One)
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Sara
elano Roosevelt Memorial
ouse was dedicated here as an
nter-faith center for students of
unter College at ceremonies
I • articipated in by Mrs. Franklin
I . Roosevelt, Mayor Fiorello La-
uardia, Henry Monsky, presi-
ent of Bnai Brith, Dr. George
. Shuster, president of Hunter
ollege, and other dignitaries.
rs. Roosevelt brought a person-
1 message from the President.
The center, composed of two
djoining houses formerly owned
y the President's mother, was
onated to the college a year ago
y a committee of laymen, head-
d by Joseph P. Day, chairman;
harles H. Tuttle, and John 8.
urke, honorary chairmen, and
. C. Horn, treasurer, as a meet-
ng place for religious groups,
rotestant, Catholic and Jewish,
hich will have their clubs in the
wilding.
The Student Christian Asso-
iation, non-denominational, and
ther Protestant clubs will oc-
upy the top floor; the Newman
lub, serving the Catholic stu-
ents, will be located on the
ourth floor, and the Hillel Foun-
ation, a branch of Bnai Brith,
ill have the third floor. There
ill be directors and advisors for
ach group.

Page Three

CIVIC
LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION
OF DETROIT, Inc.

IA Non-Profit Corporation Formed by Detroiters to Add to Our City's Cultural and Recreational Facitities)

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The J. L Hudson Company Has Opened Offices on the Woodward Mezzanine for.

ADVANCE SEASON TICKET RESERVATIONS

Ten weeks of operettas, light opera and
musical plays will be presented at Masonic
Temple Auditorium, beginning January I I.
Detroiters will be glad to know that the
Civic Light Opera Association of Detroit
has engaged, as managing director for this
civic venture, Mr. Max Koenigsberg, the
eminently successful originator and for 25
years one of the most active directors of
the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Mr. Koe-
nigsberg was also managing director of the

Week of

Jaary 11—NAUGHTY MARIETTA
January 18—BITTER SWEET
January 25 VAGABOND KING
February 1
NEW MOON
February 8— SARI

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Ticket Office Open Daily-10:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.

Dallas "Starlight Operettas" which were so
favorably commented on last Summer.
Knowing of the interest already manifest in
Detroit in this project, and of the splendid
progress being made as the program nears
completion, we are pleased to give our en-
thusiastic endorsement and cooperation. The
present sale of tickets will be for advance
season ticket reservations only. (Individual)
tickets will be placed on sale later.) Note the
program of attractions published herewith.

Week of
February 15 DESERT SONG
February 22—ROBIN HOOD
February 29—HIT THE DECK
March
7—ROBERTA
March
I4—SHOW BOAT

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