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New Regulations Ban Hate
Activities of N. Y. Police

Incidents of Police Laxity and Sympathy Are Reported
Despite Commissioner Valentine's Order Banning
Officers From Associating With Hate Groups

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NEW YORK (JPS)—New regulations for the Police Depart-
ment have been announced by Police Commissioner Valentine in
an attempt to stamp out subversive influences in the police force.
Meanwhile, incidents in increasing numbers of police laxity or even
of sympathy for the anti-Semitic vandals are being reported in
the press.
The new police regulations state that members of the depart-
ment "shall not knowingly associate . . . with any person or persons
interested in or connected with any group or organization advo-
cating or instrumental in creating . . prejudice or oppression
against any racial or religious group residing in the U. S. A. . . ."
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The new rules also state that a member of the force "shall. not
knowingly write, print, distribute, transport,, store or possess" any
. literature. "containing any defamatory or false statements which
:tend to expose any person. . . . to hatred, contempt, ridicule or
obloquy because of race or religion . . . nor shall such member
aid or assist any person . . . to disseminate, distribute, store, print
or write such literature .. . "
Accused of Actions Banned in Regulations
Patrolman James L. Drew, who recently was reinstated in a
'Jewish section of Brooklyn by Commissioner Valentine, was ac-
-- ctised of actions which now are banned in the new regulations. A.
special board appointed by Mayor LaGuardia, to review , the case
upheld • Commissioner Valentine's action.
Drew was accused of using his home as a warehouse for anti-
- Semitic literature and of consorting with Joe McWilliams ; now
_under indictment on charges of inciting to mutiny among the
armed forces of the U. S. and of conspiring with the Nazis.
The decision of the Mayor's three-man board of review is not
••a •vindication of Drew, Carl Sherman, former State Attorney Gen-
eral and chairman of the American Jewish Congress Commission
to C —1 -at Anti-Semitism, pointed out.
- It is merely limited, he said,• to an opinion that on the basis
of the record, Commissioner Valentine had not exceeded his pow-
ers in exonerating the policeman accused of dealing with the in-
dicted anti-Semite Joe McWilliams and other un-American individ-
,.uals_ and groups.
Van Loon Recommends "Beating" for Vandals
The way to handle the anti-Semitic situation on the ,streets
of New York and other cities where attacks have been rampant is
to use strong arm methods, it was stated by Hendrik Willem van
Loon, noted historian and biographer. Mr. Van Loon, who is a
prominent Protestant layman, suggests that "some of our Jewish .
prize fighter boys take a few nocturnal walks in those dangerous
neighborhoods and let themselves be attacked and then • lick hell
out of the attackers."

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Gives Four-Point Program to Combat Racial Disunity
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The American Jewish • Committee's four-
.point• program to combat racial disunity in America, read over the
radio this week by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president -, won the
indorsement of Archibshop Francis J. Spellman.
"I trust your noble efforts to be helpful in overcoming relig-
. ious and racial animosities will bear fruit and will promote mutual
respect. understanding and tolerance among all groups of Ameri- -
cans." the Archbishop said in a- message to * Mr. Proskauer.
• The four points, which Judge Proskauer urged be accepted by
every American to .achieve that accord which is the basis and the
•vindication of American democracy, are:
1. I will spread no rumor and no slander against 'any sect.
2. I will never try to indict a whole people by reason of the
delinquency of any -member.
3. I will daily deal with every man in business, in social • and
in political relations, only on the basis of his true individual worth.
4. In my daily conduct I will consecrate myself, hour by hour,
.to the achievement of the highest ideal of the dignity of mankind,
hUman equality, human fellowship and human brotherhood.
• After "Hitler will be gone,' Judge Proskauer said, "rabble
rousers who have learned a trick or two from him will remain and
.may be expected to continue their attempts to stir up hatred be-
tween groups."
In a letter to Mayor LaGuardia, Mr. Proskauer asked that there
be no delay in adopting a program to fight anti-Semitism, as dis-
closed in Commissioner of Investigation Herlands' report. He ad-
vocated the appointment of an inter-racial and inter-faith commit-
tee as suggested by the commissioner. •

Guild Will Represent Persons Affected by Anti-Semitism
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Members of the National Lawyers Guild,
in cooperation with the National Committee to Combat Anti-Semit-
ism, have agreed to represent any person affected by any act of
anti-Semitism throughout the United States. This was announced
this week in a joint statement issued by the National Committee
to Combat Anti-Semitism and the Guild.
The National Lawyers Guild, of which Robert W. Kenny, the
Attorney General of California, is - national president, is sending
a notice to that effect to Guild chapters throughout the country,
and the appropriate machinery is being set up. Invitations have
.also gone out to all other Bar Associations to similarly volunteer
-the services of their membership.
The National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is
"dedicated to the proposition that anti-Semitism in any of its form
is fascism, is repugnant to the ideals of our democracy, and must
be eliminated to safeguard the American way of life," is sponsored
by several hundred prominent leaders in various fields. They in-
clude Harold L. Ickes, Gov. Olin D. Johnston, Prof. _Emmanuel.
Chapman of Fordham University, Thomas .Mann, .Rep. Emanuel
Celler; Wm. J. Shieffelin and - others.

49 to 52 Vandals Found Non-Churchgoers
NEW YORK—(Religious News Service)—Forty-nine out of
52 youthful anti-Semitic vandals whose case histories were studied
did not attend church regularly, according to a report made public
by Commissioner Herlands. In one South Bronx district, where 16
vandals were caught, few went to any of the 24 local churches, the
170-page report discloses. The study is based on a year's investiga-
tion of anti-Semitic disturbances.

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

A meeting to commemorate the 100th
anniversary of the passing of Ezekiel
Hart, Jewish pioneer, soldier and par-
liamentarian, arranged by the Canadian
Jewish Congress and the Canadian Jewish
Historical Society was held at the Jewish
People's " School in -Montreal. Adhernar
Raynault, Mayor of Montreal, was the
main speaker.
The Argentine government's decree of
censorship is meeting resistance from the
two chief pro-democratic dailies, Prensa
and La Nacion, which have declared in
front-page editorials that they intend to
continue to present the news as accurately
as possible and to continue to comment on
it as objectively as.. possible. • The Ramirez
government's censorship regulations pro-
hibit the printing of anything which
might be contrary to national interest or
endanger public security.
A reception in honor of Edward Ran-
dall Maguire, retiring principal of the
Herman Ridder Junior High School, New
York, was tendered by a committee of
Jewish leaders in recognition of h i s
pioneering in the introduction of the
courses in the Hebrew language and liter-
ature in his school.
Eight hundred Jewish children from
Paris were loaded into cattle vans and
deported several months ago. According
to this report, reaching the World Jewish
Congress office in New York from its rep-

resentativ es in Lisbon, similar deporta-
tions of children are taking place in other
sections of France.

PALESTINE

This year's recipients of the Chaim
Nachman Bialik literary - prize, awarded
annually by the Tel Aviv municipality on .
the occasion of the late poet's birthday,
were announced at ceremonies broadcast
at the Bialik House in Tel Aviv. The prize
was shared by Dr. Abraham Pollak for his
work "History of the Jewish Kingdom of-
the Khazars in Europe," and the Hebrew_
novelist A. A. Kabak for his novel "Void"
describing the Haskalah period in Jewish
life. The Haskalah was a movement which
began in Germany in the middle of the
18th • century and which preached west-
ernization of the Jews.

OVERSEAS

Meir Grossman of New York City,
Jewish State Party leader, will be called
by his party to come to London in antici-
pation of the forthcoming unofficial dis-
cussion of . major problems by Jewish
leaders.

The Nazis have ordered the sterniza-
tion of all Jewish young men and women
interned in Theriesenstadt, considered the
most cruelly controlled of all ghettos
established by the German authorities in
occupied Europe, according to a report
received by the Ciech government-in-
exile in London.

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