Friday, March 3, 1944 Lack of Funds May Impede War Refugee Board's Work Problem of Congressional Appropriation 'a Hot Question', Says John W. Pehle, Executive Director of the WRB; 90 Organizations Invited to Aid in Progra'm Activities of the War Refugee Board may be hampered by lack of funds; John W. Pehle, executive director, indicated in Washing- ton this week. In statements to newspapermen and to representatives of na- tional organizations, Mr. Pehle stated that the board is as yet Undecided whether to apply to Congress for an appropriation to facilitate its work. Mr. Pehle told M. Frank, Washington correspondent of the Newish Morning Journal, that should the War Refugee Board request a Congressional appropriation, it might involve political issues and delay in rescue work. Congressional Funds `a Hot Question' The Joint Distribution Committee, Mr. Pehle is reported to have said, feels that without Government grants the private agen- cies will have more freedom in. their work. The problem of a Congressional appropriation is "a hot question," he said. The War Refugee Board will "not be a directly operating or- e ganization, directly engaged in rescuing victims from Nazi Europe," Mr. Frank quotes Mr. Pehle, "the Board will facilitate the rescue work of various private and international organizations." He has already invited 90 organizations, Jewish and non-Jewish, to par- ticipate in the program. In reply to a question as to whether the Board will help rescue Jews to reach Palestine, Pehle is reported to have replied that his organization is primarily interested in providing for them a tem- porary refuge and anything beyond that is beyond the scope of the Board's terms of reference. - Board, UNRRA Operate in Different Fields Answering a question from Mr. Frank as to the relations be- tween the War Refugee Board, the UNRRA and the Inter-Govern- mental Committee, Mr. Pehle stated that the Board and the UNRRA operate- in different fields, but wherever they can be of assistance to each other, they certainly will be. Mr. Frank's impression is, "both from what Mr. Pehle has told me and from what he did not say, that our Government is dis- appointed in the work of the Inter-Governmental Committee." Urge United Nations Train Guerillas to Rescue Jews THE JEWISH NEWS Page Three Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA Father Edward Lodge Curran, president of the International Catholic Truth Society, was described at a Chicago meeting of the Citizens U.S.A. Committee as "the successor of Father Charles E. Coughlin, who has been liquidated." The Citizens Keep America Out of War Corn- mittee is headed by William Grace, secretary of the Republican National Revival Committee. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, president of the Jew- ish Theological Seminary, is the recipient of the honorary degree of Sacred Theology from Columbia University. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the University, declared that he was conferring this degree on Dr. Finkelstein, Monsignor John Augustine Ryan, professor emeritus of the Catholic University of America, and Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, "in recognition of the growing spirit of co-operation among religious faiths." Paul Robeson, noted Negro singer and actor, now appearing in "Othello," has received the annual award given by Temple Kneseth Israel, New York, to the person who has contributed towards combatting racial hatred, intolerance and religious bigotry. Immediately after Representative John E. Rankin won another round of applause from some of his colleagues in the House by de- scribing Walter Winchell, columnist and radio commentator, as a "little communist kike," Rep. Adolph Sabath, chairman of the House Rules Committee, rose to his feet stating that "the gentleman from Mississippi" had better "desist from maligning people who cannot defend themselves on the floor of the House." Attorney-General John E. Martin has been directed by Governor Walter S. Goodland to take steps to annul the charter of the Gentile League, incorporated several weeks ago in Watertown, Wisc. Preceding t h e gover- nor's directive, the attorney-general had in- vestigated the league and found that its pur- pose was "to prevent the Jewish race from enjoying the rights granted everybody under the State Constitution." PALESTINE Two police cars were wrecked and three British inspectors narrowly escaped injury as a result of time bombs which exploded here. One explosion smashed windows in the Roths- child Hospital on Mount Carmel. A British constable was reported to have been slightly injured as a result of the second explosion. High British and Palestinian Jewish officers and hundreds of soldiers, detachments of 10 Palestinian Jewish units, participated in the planting of a forest on Jewish National Fund soil in memory of Brigadier Frederick H. Kisch, chief engineer of the British Eighth Army, who died in action in the North African campaign. The forest was planted at the vil- lage Maaleh Hahamishali near the Jewish Soldiers Forest and in proximity to the Hen- rietta Szold, Eddie Cantor and Children's Forests. OVERSEAS An anti-Semitic exhibition called "The. Jew —The Plague of the World," depicting the Jews as a peril to Poland's future and the cause of Poland's trouble . in the past, was opened by Nazi authorities in the city of Rzeszow. -- Lt. Col. Frederick Deakin, whom Prime Minister Winston Churchill had singled out for praise in connection with the aid he had given to Partisan Leader Marshal Tito, was one of the first in Great Britain to organize homes for Jewish refugee children from Ger- many who arrived here immediately after Hitler's assumption of power. The Finnish government has protested to Werner Best, Nazi diplomatic representative at Copenhagen, Denmark, against the deporta- tion to the ghetto at Theriesenstadt of 12 Finnish Jews, former residents of Copenhagen. The Nazi censors at Copenhagen went through the proofs of the Danish "Who's Who" for 1944 and blue-penciled out all the Jewish names. The publishers, in defiance of the Nazi censors, decided not to issue the book this year. Rescue Units" Trained by Sweden Under the Supervision of Red Cross; Report Nazi Commissioner Globotchnik Assassinated by Jews •- LONDON (JTA)—A suggestion that all Allied commanders and chiefs of guerilla units be instructed to do their utmost to rescue Jews and political prisoners who could • be transferred with mini- mum formalities to countries of safety, was made here by the Na- tional Committee for Rescue from Nazi terror to representatives of the United Nations. Three letters from Jewish leaders in the underground move- ments in occupied Poland reached here this week. Their contents throw light on the despair prevailing. among those Jews in Poland who have so far escaped Nazi extermination. muskrat Sweden Trains "Rescue Units" to Speed Aid to Jews STOCKHOLM, (JTA)—Special units trained to bring immedi- ate aid to Jews and other persecuted people in occupied Europe are Row being formed in Sweden, from where they will .proceed to various sections of the European continent on relief and rescue mis- sions as soon as circumstances permit, it was learned here this week. A representative of the Swedish Red Cross, which is organizing these units, is now conducting important talks in London. First quafily, northern-back skins, masterfully fashioned by Sie g el fur craftsmen . . . each coat proudly Jews from Polish Ghettos Fighting Nazis in France LONDON (JPS)—Hundreds of Jews, who had managed to es- cape from the ghettos of Poland and-to reach France by using Aryan identity cards, are now fighting within the ranks of the De Gaullist guerillas against the Nazis, it is reported by the French pro-Nazi, newspaper, Tribune du Peuple.- Monsieur Chabot, vice-president of the French Red Cross, is re- ported to have been arrested by the Paris Gestapo because he dis- tributed food and clothing among needy Jews. There are some 1,400 Jewish refugees interned on the island 'of Mauritius, Paul V. Emrys-Evans, Undersecretary of State for Do- minion Affairs, said in Commons in response to a question from John Hanbury Martin, Labor M. P. The countries of origin of these refugees include Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Danzig and Ger- many. -"There is no reason to believe that they are other than sym- pathetic to the Allied cause," Mr. Emrys-Evans stated. Jews Assassinate Nazi Commissioner Contrary to previous reports to the effect that Nazi Commis- sioner Globotchnik, the Heydrich of Poland, had been assassinated by the Polish underground it is now learned from authoritative re- ports via Geneva that his assassins were members of a Jewish guer- illa unit. Commissioner Globotchnik was reared in Palestine, the son of German parents, residents of one of the old German colonies in the country. These colonies were accused of having supplied Ger- man arms to the terrorist bands of the Mufti of Jerusalem during the riots of 1936-1939. Commissioner Globotchnik, in view of his early environment, had acquired fluency in Hebrew and Yiddish and was considered by the Nazis a "specialist" on Jewish affairs. He was put in charge of the liquidation of the Lublin ghetto after he had completed the ex- termination of Viennese Jewry. He was directly responsible for the death to tens of thousands of Jews in Poland. The Jewish guerillas had long vowed to avenge these deaths and finally caught up with Globotchnik as he was preparing to leave Lublin for a new assign-, ment elsewhere. wearing ifs Siegel label of quality- bred furs and top workmanship .. Many are from a newly-arrived colection bringing you advance styles in rich lustrous new sable blends. An opportunity of a lifetime to own a Siegel fur coat a* a remarkable savings. Clearance Priced Coats originally $295 $198* Coats originally $350 $298* *Plus Federal Tax Ireland Takes Action Against Jewish Publication For Insulting "Friendly Nation" - LONDON, (JTA)—The Minister of Interior of Eire told the Dail Eireaan this week that "appropriate action" will be taken against a Jewish youth publication in Dublin for publishing an uncensored article "offensive to a friendly nation." The Minister refused to dis- close both the nature of the article and the name of the nation which took exception to it. Join Fight Against British White Paper NEW YORK—Colorado is the fifteenth state to join the fight for reopening Palestine to Jewish immigration by its recent unani- mous passage of a joint resolution at an extraordinary session of the state legislature urging "that all barriers on Jewish immigra- tion into Palestine be now removed so that those JAvs who can find escape from Axis-dominated Europe have permanent haven in the Land of Israel. . . ." The announcement was made by. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the executive committee of the American Zionist Emergency Council. Similar action has been taken since the issuance of the British. White Paper by the legislatures of Alabama, California, Connecti- cut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Texas. Several other state legislatures are currently considering resolu- tions protesting against the White Paper and advocating the estab- lishment of a free Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine. FURS .Third FLooc 113. SIEGEI. CC . NOODW.A.RD