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THE JEWISH , NEWS

rage Sixteen

Columbia's 3,000 Newcomers Have Made
The Country Resound With Their Enterprise

The Valley Has a New Echo

T Reciprocity is a term familiar to the people
of the republic of Colombia. They have heard it
used in connection with the United States Good
Neighbor policy. Now they have learned a new
application of the word as a result of their con-
tact with the 3,000 refugees from Fascism who
have found new homes in their country.
Colombians have seen that in return for their
hospitality, they have received the benefit of
the skill, training and experience of people who,
denied the right to apply them in their native
lands, are now adding to the wealth of their
newly adopted country.
Residents of Bogota, the capital, for example,
have witnessed the establishment by the refu-
gees of several new industrieS in the past few
years. Factory whistles and the hum of ma-
chines echo in the Andes valleys. From the new
- factories have come cosmetics, toys, lamp shades
and wearing apparel, much of which had to be
imported before. Cause for satisfaction, too, is
that native Colombians share in the production,
serving as workers in the plants.
The mountain-locked city of Cali, too, has a
number of new industries: a cutlery plant, a
comb factory and a chromium-plating factory.

The handful of refugees who made their way
to the small and ancient Andean city of Medellin
have also demonstrated their enterprise. Smoke
from busy plants manufacturing belts, gloves,
boxes, and knitted goods floats into the thin
mountain air.
Not all the refugees have set up their own
businesses. A number of them, skilled artisans,
have gone to work in shops and factories owned
by Colombians. Newcomers are employed also
in the garment industry, which is mostly in the
hands of Jews from Eastern Europe who immi-
grated before the Hitler decade.
As is the case in other South American coun-
tries which have received refugees, the Jewish
communities, aided by the J.D.C., have taken
care of their less fortunate co-religionists. Five
years ago, 2,200 of the refugees had to apply' to
the - Jewish communities for outright relief, med-
ical and other forms of assistance. Today, the
number has been cut to 100. This decline has
enabled the welfare committees to use their
funds for.. constructive, long-term projects. In
March, 1941, a loan .bank was created, with the
J.D.C. participating, to assist business men with
short term credits.
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—(J.D.C. Digest)

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

(See Also Page 3)

The American soldiers in the Middle
East, flocking to Palestine for their fur-
lough, give Tel Aviv the highest rating,
according to Gordon Gaskill, American
correspondent, writing in the American
Magazine. A digest of his article also ap-
pears in Readers' Digest.
Vaad Hahatzalah, Orthodox R e s c u e
Committee, has sent $154,000 for the aid
of rabbis, Talmudic students and their
families who are now refugees in Russia
and in certain European countries where
rescue work is possible, it was announced
here by the Committee's headquarters in
New York. The State Department and
the Treasury Department have g i v en
clearance to the funds.
A new tuberculin test, "invaluable for
army and civilian surveys, which diag-
noses tuberculosis within 12 to 24 hours,"
has been developed at the National Jew-
ish Hospital at Denver by Dr. H. J. Cor-
per, head of its research department.
The last 25,000 Jews that had survived
the deportations from Warsaw and the
battles waged between the Nazis and
Jewish resisters during the Ghetto Revolt
against these deportations have been in-
terned in a concentration camp near Han-
over, it was rep or t e d by the Polish
Telegraphic Agency in New York.
J. Ernest Wright, a Pittsburgh high
school teacher of economics who was fired
by the Board of Education for „"using vile
language," admitted that he did use some
sharp words in reply to anti-Semitic stu-
dents, and counter-charged that the real
reason for his dismissal was his deter-
mined fight against race bias. The school
was picketed ''by some students who de-
manded his reinstatement.

• PALESTINE

The announcement by the government
that only 900 principal Jewish immigrants
with their wives and minor children will
be permitted to enter Palestine under the
new immigration quota issued for the
three-month period terminating March 31,

when the White Paper is to go into full
effect, was received with disappointment
by the Hebrew dailies and in the circles
of the Jewish Agency, which, it is under-
stood, had asked for a far larger quota. .
The scientific training facilities of Jew-
ish Palestine, placed at the disposal of
the war effort, are being utilized for the
training of military and technical special-
ists for the British forces.
Six Palestine Jewish volunteers, an of-
ficer, a warrant officer, three non-com-
missioned officers, and two sapper s,
serving in a Port Operating Company of
the Royal Engineers, part of the famous
Eighth Army, were recently cited for
gallantry in Eighth Army Force orders.
About 70 Australian soldiers, who have
been exchanged from prisoner of w a r
camps in Germany, visited Palestine on
their way home to Australia. They were
received at the Tel Aviv Municipality by
the Mayor, I. Rokach.

Friday, February 4, 1944

Jews in lhuriform.

Rabbi Adler Gets
Post as Chaplain
At Army Hospital

LT. MORRIS ADLER

Congregation Shaarey Zedek
received word this week that
Rabbi Morris Adler, Chaplain in
the U. S. Army, will be stationed
at the Military Hospital, Utica,
N. Y., upon completion of his
training course at the. Harvard
Chaplains' School.

Author Cites Great Danger
in Spread of Bigotry in U. S.

MIAMI BEACH (JPS)—Philip Wylie, the novelist, writing in
the Miami News, expresses grave concern over anti-Semitism in
the U. S. viewing it as a danger not only to the Jew, but to the
country as a whole. Countering 0
the recent anti-Semitic charge gone; for • one thing. • And many
that the Jews are to blame for of the people who touch our
all evil, Mr. Wylie describes hearts every day. Poets, writers,
what would happen to this cour.
dramatists, journalists, best-loved
try if the Jews were eliminated: radio and movie stars and mu-
"What evil would be undone? sicians — thousands upon thou-
What's this talk about? Next day sands of these. We'd lose hun-
we'd have as many crimes per dreds of philanthropists, and
capita. Prisons would remain many of the kindest people in
full. The number of politically America. We'd also lose so many
corrupt leaders would hardly di- scientists the progress of man
minish. The strikers would still would be set back the length of
strike. John L. Lewis. and Pe- your whole lifetime.
trillo would still haunt us.
"We'd also lose our Bill of
There'd be four per " cent more Rights, our security, everybody's
food but distribution would liberty and our • self respect. 'In-
buckle, and of course taxes formation Please' would be wiped
would rise four per cent. The out. We'd lose Barney Baruch
movies and radio wouldn't miss and Hedy Lamarr and Prof. Ein-
a beat, only the quality would stein."
suffer. No gain, what loss?
Reply to Pegler
Lose Scientists
Mr. Wylie's article is a reply
"Well, most of the people who to Westbrook Pegler, syndicated

make America laugh would be newspaper columnist, whq re-

Pfc. Wildred A. Roberts is com-
pleting his course in foreign lan-
guages at the University of Cin-
cinnati. While at Wayne Uni-
versity, he was a member of the
band. He assisted in forming a
band at the University of Cin-
cinnati, and will participate in a
concert in February, under the
direction of the famous band-
master, Frank Simon. Mrs. Rob-
erts has been with him for the
past three months. They cele-
brated their first wedding anni-
versary on Jan. 31.

The Navy Department rept-
ed that the message broadcast
Pfc. Blau to his mother was
follows: .s

r

.

Brothers in Service

A sad note marked rece has
this message, since Pfc. t. tq
father had passed away in .1-
vember.

In December, Mrs. Blau re
ceived a card from her son in-
forming her that he was well but '
that he had undergone an appen-
dectomy.

Pfc. Blau's brother, Andrew,
26, a graduate of Central High
School and a former student at
Lawrence Institute of Technol-
ogy, entered service last month.
He was appointed Aviation Ca-
det in the Army Air Corps and
last week reported for active
duty in New Orleans.

Under the chairmanship of Simon

cently charged that Marshall
Field, publisher of PM, a news-
paper published in New York
City, and of the Chicago Sun,
was "whooping up and . . great-
ly exaggerating such anti-
Semitic activity and feeling as
may exist in New York and Bos-
ton," by the exposes published in
his newspapers. Mr. Wylie pre-
faces his article with this state-
ment: "Westbrook Pegler (Amer-
ica's stuck whistle) mutters that
there isn't anti-Semitism in
America. Just people worrying
about it, and what's all the fuss?
Well, some of my best friends
are anti-Semites."

Mrs. Ruth Blau, formerly of
Detroit and now residing at !630
Belmar Rd., Cleveland, 0., was
informed this
week by thel
Navy public re-
1 a ti ons depart-
ment that a Jap-
anese broadcast
had been re
ceived on Oct.
27 quoting her
son, 25-year-old
Pfc. Sanford
Jack Blau of the
U. S. Army Air
Pfc. Blau
Corps, who is now interned in
Manila.

"I am very well and
happy to greet you and I
that over these many many ".r.
of water this message, brir th
Mrs. Adler and their daughter, closer together. I long to
Shulamith, will join him about and hope that you are wel
March 1.
not worrying. A very ,hapr oan
niversary to you and 'Dac
my very very (word or t‘.-
leted) to you and Dad. Sr no

Marks, the Zionist Funds in Britain have

Wylie on Anti-Semitism

Quotes Detroit
War Prisoner

Pfc. Blau Sends Greetings to
Family, Mother Told
by Navy

OVERSEAS

launched for the first time, a unified
campaign which includes the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, the Palestine Foundation
Fund, the Youth Aliyah, the Fund for
Labor Palestine and the Mizrachi Fund.
The quota is £1,000,000.
Darquier de la Pellepoix, former Vichy
Minister for Jewish Affairs, who was ar-
rested for misappropriating funds confis-
cated from the Jews, was sprung from
jail at German insistance that he was
invaluable to the Nazi cause.
Prof. Harold Laski has been elected
vice-chairman of the British Labor Party.
Jews and Poles work amicably in the
League of Polish Patriots, formed by war
refugees from Poland, it is reported Mos-
cow by the League's Central Committee.
Soviet authorities have announced that
they have "indisputable proof" that the
Nazis massacred 40,000 Jews in Rovno
and vicinity, and 23,000 Jews in Pinsk
and its environs.

Jap Broadcast

Describes Services In
North African Synagogue

Lt. Sol Panush, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. Panush of 4026 W. Grand
Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Cranis Ave., now serving overseas with '
of 2556 W. Philadelphia Ave. the U. S. Army, writes an inter-
esting letter to
have two sons in the service.
h i s family de-
Cpl. Leon J. Cranis, 23 years scribing his ex-
old, a graduate of •Central High periences in a
School, is now stationed over- North African
seas, with the Air Corps. He has synagogue.
been in service since Feb. 1,
Comparing the
1943. He was a member of overseas struc-
Trident Fraternity. While en ture where he
route to his overseas destina- worshipped t o
tion, he conducted Sabbath Eve the Shaarey Ze
services for his Jewish fellow- dek of Detroit,
servicemen.
Lt. Panush tells of the part in
His brother, Jack, 20 years the services played by the vener.
old, a graduate of Northwestern able Grand Rabbi.
High School, is also serving in
"The congregation," he writes,
the Air Corps. He is stationed "w as mix e d, predominantly
at Scott Field, Illinois. He has French, with American, English
been in service since Dec., 1943. and Arab Jews present. French
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was their mother tongue a n d
A/C Irving William Oberfel- they know Hebrew which they
der, on of Mr. and Mrs. Irving hold in reverence as the HOly
0.b e rf elder Tongue."
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of Canterbury
First Lt. Nathan Sharon, son
Drive, is now
stationed at of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schur=
autz of 11350
G r eenville;
Dexter Blvd. is
Miss., where he
stationed with
is assigned to
the U. S. Air
pilot duty. In
Corps at Day-
service since
ton, 0. He was
February, 1943
graduated from
A/C Oberfelder
Central High
A/C Oberfelder was completin,g
School and the
his freshinari. year at ,the Univer-
Wayne Univers4-
sity of Michigan at the time of
ity School o f
his erdist
rnent. He is a gradu-
A c c o untancy
ate of Highland Park High
a n d received
School and was confirmed at
Lt. Sharon
his Jewish edu-
Temple Beth El.
cation in the United Hebrew
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Schools. He received his corn—
Pvt. Herman V. Kasoff, 19,
mission after acquiring his basic
son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
training at Miami Beach, Fla.
Kasoff, 2334 Waverly Ave., was
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wounded in action in Italy, Nov.
Pfc. Harry Klein, formerly a
30, his parents have been in-
formed. An infantryman, Pvt. member of AZA Chapter 314, a
Kasoff quit Central high to en- graduate of Wayne University, is
list last May. He went overseas now stationed in India, after
having served in North Africa.
in September.

LEON J. AND JACK CRANIS

