THE JEWISH NEWS Page Fourteen r Weekly Review of the News of ihe World . (Compiled • From cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) (See Also Page 3) AMERICA Sgt. Richard F. Stern, Jewish refugee from Germany who received the Iron Cross serving in the Kaiser's • army during the last war, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry for trick- in.:, a half dozen Nazis into „surrender on the b Italian front last January. Sergeant Stern had refused an honorable discharge from the U. S. Army and requested overseas duty. • Decoy planes looking like real aircraft, guar- anteed to fool the enemy into sending his bombers over fake air field targets, were in- vented and patented by . Jack Weisbaum of . Cincinnati, Science News Letters reports. A group • of prominent Christian clergy of Hungarian descent — Catholic, ProteStant and Greek Orthodox — affiliated- with the Errierg- ency . Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, appealed to Pope - Pius XII to do all in- his power to rescue the Jews of Hungary. Promizole, • a chemical of the sulfa family, was shown to be more effective than older chemicals in treating tuberculosis in an ex- periment_ on guinea pigs by Drs. William H. Feldman, H. Corwim Hinshaw and Frank C. Mann of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Science NeWs -Letter reports. • A new Method of killing germs in less than one second by a new type of • ultraviolet lamp has been developed by Drs. Sidney 0. Levinson, Albert Milzer, Howard J. Shaughnessy, Franz Oppenheimer and John . L. Neal• of the Michael' Reese Hospital and the Illinois 'Department of Health, Science News Letter reports. The Army Service Forces have 'asked the Bnai Brith Vocational Service Bureau to pro- vide 2,625 copies of "career pamphlets," pub, fished by the Bureau,. to be used in Army. Edu- cational Guidance Kits, it was announced in Washington by Leon Obermayer, chairman of the Bnai Brith Vocational Guidance Commis- sion. The North. Central Jurisdictional Conference of the Methodist Church, meeting in Minne- apolis, adopted unanimously a resolution de-. nouncing racial and religious hatred and calling on the United States to take "appropriate action" s. o that the "international commitments made to the Jews in conneetion• with a home- land in Palestine may. be fulfilled at the earli- est possible time." This was announced by Dr. Ernest F. Tittle, of EvanSton, Ill., who -intro- duced the resolution.. The Washington Post of July 6 carried the folloWing report: "In a final plea before the Board of. Immigration Appeals, Peter Bergson, leader of the so-called Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, asked withdrawal of the . arrest warrant issued • against him for illegal . residence in this country." Arthur D. Greenleigh, former executive on the staff of the War . Manpower Commission, has been assigned by the Joint. Distribution Committee to Rome, where. he will co-ordinate a program of aid for refugee Jews in the re- : cently liberated Italian Capitol. PALESTINE State lands for housing projects for ex-serv- ,icemen were demanded: of the government' here by Shikun, housing cooperative of the Hista- druth, Jewish .Palestine's Federation of Labor. Shikun had "built accommodations for 3,125 families before the war. The polling of Jewish Palestine's soldiers in connection with the elections for the Assephath Hanivcharim (Representative. Assembly) has already - begun at all the bases Where they are stationed. The soldiers enclose their ballots in sealed envelopes which are to be opened on Aug. 1, when Palestine's Jews go to the polls. Two and a half million dunams of land in Palestine, of which 2,000,000 are in the hill country and the balance in the south, require afforestation, Joseph Weitz, - forestry officer of the Keren Kayemeth, Jewish 'National Fund, reported at a press conference held at the vil- lage of Ben Shemen, site of the first woodland named for Dr. Theodore Herzl, founder of po- litical Zionism. This project, he said, will fit into the broad postwar scheme for the economic absorption of demobilized soldiers, unemployed war workers and new arrivals in the land. Lily Pons, opera star, and her husband, An- dre Kostelanetz, conductor, attended a concert of the Palestine , Symphony-. Orchestra there and also visited some colonies. They are on a tour of American military camps in the Middle East. OVERSEAS The Rome radio reported that definite in- formation has been received' that 3,000 Jews - in Florence, ferreted out of hiding places in the homes of non-Jews in that city, have been deported by Mussolini police to "an unknown destination." Placards demanding the release and return . home of Danish Jew deported by the Nazis to the ghetto at Theresienstadt -were_ carried by. Copenhagen strikers during their recent dem- onstrations which culminated in pitched battles with police. and German troops in Copenhagen, the Nazi press of Denmark .reports. The influential Socialist organ in Helsinki, Soumi Social Demokraten, has called upon the government to suppress anti-Jewish hooligan- ism- and take steps against the -agitation of the more vociferous anti-Semitic newspapers. The Paris .radio announced that the Vichy government. proclaimed the death sentence on General Weiss, who is in charge in Algiers of the prosecution of Vichyites. Plea to Pope Dropsie College Given 3 Rare Manuscripts (Continued Frcim Page 3) out during a recent .raid on Nazi Of the 14th Century military installations in Hungary. PHILADELPHIA—During the "The people were particularly in- censed when they learned that past month, Dropsie College one of the crew of the bomber came into . possession of three was a.. Budapest Jew who had rare . manuscripts. fled to America," the papers al- One is an ancient copy of the lege. Books of Leviticus and Deuter- Hungary Sets Deadline onomy, 'probably based on the To Deport All Jews Pentateuch -of the famous Mas- - ZURICH, (JTA) — All Jews orete Ben Asher. marked for deportation from The manuscript is written in Hungary must be expelled from square Yemenite characters, with the country "within 20 days," the vowels and accents . • wrought in Hungarian Minister of Interior geometrical designs,. and form- has instructed, police authorities ing a frame for the biblical text charged with • the task of deport- According to a . colophon at ing Jews from Hungary to oc- the end of the book, the manu- cupied Poland: The . . instructions, which were script was copied by David ben broadcast "over Hungarian 'radio Benayah ben Saadyah in 1493. stations, advise the 'Alice author- This manuscript is the gift of the ities that "the deportation of Alumni Association of the Drop- Jews must continue with the ut- sie College, who acquired it from most. speed." " The British and the late Paul Romanoff, a 'grad- American warning to the Hun- uate of the college. Another rare acquisition is the garian population that those par- ticipating in the deportations will manuscript -machzor of the Ro= be punished as war criminals was man rite, - used by the Jewish termed "nothing but typical comunities of Italy and the Anglo-Saxon bluff," by the Min- neighboring Mediterranean coun- ister. tries.. It dates back to. the 14th Private advices reaching here century. The third manuscript is a from Budapest reveals that the pro-Nazi Hungarian GoVernment 14th. century machzor of the Ash-. is anxious to complete the . de- kenazic rite, used by the Jewish portation of Jews from the cap- communities of Germany, France ital before the principal railway and some East European -coun- lines leading to and from the tries. , city are crippled by Allied air attacks. Large-scale deportation 196 Face Trial in Rome of the 250,000 Jews of Budapest for Anti-Jewish Acts ROME (JPS) = Charged with would be difficult if rail com- munications are disrupted. • perpetrating anti-Jewish atroci- The . Hungarian Telegraphic ties, 196 Italian fascists will soon Agency reported- that 116 Jews be put on trial here. before an were killed and 342 injured dur-. Italian court martial, it was re- ing the Allied raid'•n Budapest vealed. This will be first of such trials. recently. A number of Christians were arrested in Budapest this ,week Ankara that "the Hungarians are on the charge of -trying to assist surpassing their German masters Jews to flee the ghetto by sup- in cruelty in annihilating thr plying. them with false identifica- Jews." tion documents, the Budapest The correspondent confirms radio reports. that 400,000 Jews have already been "liquidated" in provinc i al Hungarians Surpass Nazis towns in Hungary. Some have In Annihilating Jews been deported to Poland while LONDON, (JTA)—The ecial oihers were transported to labor correspondent of. the Manchester camps where they work under Guardian in Turkey reports from appalling .conclition,s_ In Lighter Vein . The Week's Best. Stories Paul Muni: On Skates, With Flowing . Beard Paul Muni, the famous". Jewish actor, was born Muni Weisen- freund.- We are told by the Milwaukee Journal that he start- ed his theatrical career • in. his father's stock company. He showed his extraordinary ver- satility , by taking - all parts his parent was unable to fill other- wiSe. Mostly, however, he played bearded old men. But paint and make-up couldn't stifle his lively; teen-age spirits, and he played just as hard as other youngsters. During inter-- missions, and while waiting for his cue, he :spent the time out Of doors roller -skating. Imagine. the startled looks of passers-by When they noticed s a heavily wrinkled, white-haired, old man with a long flowing beard whiz- zing by. Muni never had time to remove his make-up during hiS short frolics in the street. * * Jests Whispered in Prague The Czechoslovak National Council of America reports that the following jests are heard in Prague: Hitler has ordered the con- scription of all 60-year-old Ger- mans. "They are among his see cret weapons," the Czechs . say; "they embody metals . important for the war industry: Silver- hairs, gold teeth, and leaden legs." The 60-year-old soldiers are permitted, to choose the forma- tion with . which they wish to serve. One Of them- .chose: "The Fuehrer's headquarters." Officer: "Are you mad?" Soldier: "Yes. Is that me of the necessary qualifications?" . Hannibal, Caesar. and Napo- leon are looking, down from Heaven on, the cause of the war: Hannibal: "Ah! If I'd only had those American Liberators!" Napoleon: "And if. I'd• only had Goebi as — the world still wouldn't know that I . had " lost the war!" Friday, July 14, 1944 Yudkoff Elected Vice President of Grand Lodge . Anti-Semitic Election Drive On in Quebec OTTAWA (JPS) — The Union Bnai Brith District No. 6 Nationale, led by Jew-baiting Holds War Emergency Maurice L. Duplessis, who has Parley in Chicago been circulating forgeries _ charg- The war emergency .meeting of the, general committee of Bnai Brith District Grand Lodge No. 6 concluded is session in . Chi- cago. It was the first time in the 76 . years of the district's history that a convention was cancelled, in response to the appeal from the Office of Defense Transporta- tion to reduce civilian travel. Harry Yudkoff of Detroit was elected first vice-president of the district lodge. The general committee, to which had been delegated the powers of a convention, consid-' ered the reports of 30 district activities. War Fund Campaign The war service committee, of which • Charles H. Louer of Chi- cago is chairman, reported that $28,7,90.50 had been contributed by 128 lodges in the 1943-44 Na- tional Bnai. .-Brith War Fund Campaign; that over $9,000,000 in War Bonds were sold just pre- ceding the. Fourth War Loan; that 10,000 pints of blood were donated to the Red 'Cross Blood Banks of Chicago, Detroit, Mil- waukee, St. Paul and Minneap- olis; and four outstanding _ hos- pital projects , had been under- taken, Schick -General Hospital by lodges in Iowa Council,. Gar= diner Hospital by South Side 7,0dge, Chicago, McIntyre Hos- pital by North. Shore- and Austin Lodges in Chicago, and Vaughn General Hospital by Adolf Kraus Lodge in -Chicago.— t h e • total amount raised being approxi- mately $1501000. 14 Hillel Homes Hary A. Frankel, in his presi- dent's message, pointed out that this district had initiated t h e home-owning program of the Bnai. • Brith Hillel Foundations when the first. one was .- pur- chased at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. There, are now 14 such Hillel Homes in operation or funds available for building immediately after the Victory. He also • reported that the membership of the Dis- trict' had reached the all-time high of 36,715 of whom 4313 are in military service: Benjamin I. Morris of Chicago dealt with' the . development of the f arm volunteer project "Camp Avodah" which. w a s sponsored by AZA (Bnai Brith youth organization) in coopera- tion with. the Board of. Jewish Education of Chicago . and sup- ported by the _State - of Illinois and 'United States Government. Harry A. Yudkoff of Detroit, district membership director, and second vice-president, reported that 7,883 new members h a d been procured during the past year by 124 out of 130 lodges in the district. The gain in mem- bership coupled with . the record of conservation activities result- ed in a net increase of 5,873 inemberS for the year ending June 30, 1944. Bisgyer, Sachar Speak Those who attended. were _ad- dressed by Maurice Bisgyer, sec- retary of .the Supreine Lodge; Dr. A. L. Sachar, national direc- tor of ' the Bnai . Brith Iillel Foundation, and Max N. Kroloff, assistant national director of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. Their talks dealt with ing to the Canadian Jewish Con- gress a conspiracy to "deluge" Quebec with Jews, already has fired its first guns in the - Quebec election campaign against the Liberal Party of Premier Adelard Godbout. 'Five other groups, some liberal, some radical and other of ex- treme reactionary bent, are -par- ticipating. in- the campaign. They are: The Cardin Liberals, as op- posed to the Godbout Liberals; Bloc Populaire. led by Maxime Raymond, the Co-Operative Com- monwealth Federation,' the Labor Progressives an d the Social Credit Party. • Mexico Arrests Fascist Editor for Treason MEXICO CITY (JPS) — Fas- cism was charged to the semi- clerical Sinarquist movement by the Attorney . General of Mexico -Aguilary Mayo,. who declared in a statement on the Sinarquists tha'_ , "during.7 years, Sinarquism has spread among the peasants, the ideas, --programs and norms Of conduct of the Spanish gov- ernment based on Falangism and fascism, disturbing public order and clandestinely urging the Mexican army and_. people to re- volt against the gOvernment." Allied Labor News reports that the attorney - .general's statement followed.. the arrest of Sinarquist. writer -Juan Ignacio Padilla for writing treasonable articles ap- . pearing in El Sinarquista, the of- ficial organ of the • Sinarquist movement. Bnai Brith in the present and postwar world. The following officers were elected for 1944-45: President, Isaac Wagner, Chicago; 1st vice- president, Harry Yudkoff, De- troit; 2nd vice-president Louis Pickus, Waukoegan, Ill.; treas- urer, Gottfried D. Bernstein, Chicago. Michigan men elected . to the general committee are.: Abe Ro- man, Bay City; Samuel Leib, Detroit. 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