Friday, September '8, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

U.S., State Urged to Take
Steps to Halt Smith Bigotry

Labor Leaders, American Legion Here andCongressman
Ask Triple Investigation-of America First Party;
Early Indictment Sought

National labor leaders and organizations and the Ameri-
can Legion were prompt in condemning the America First
convention held here under the leadership of Gerald L. K.
Smith and in demanding action to ,prevent the recurrence
of a demonstration of religious and racial bigotry in this
country.

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Nazis Hanged for SCIENCE
Two Hundred Jews
Survive in Grodno
Pinsk Atrocities Insulin Shock
PINSK (JPS)—Three German Treatment OK'd
MOSCOW (JTA)—The Jewish
officers of the Gestapo and the
Telegraphic Agency received a
notorious "SD" police, convicted For N .Y .Hospital list giving the names of 200 Jew-

by a military tribunal of respon-
sibility for the slaughter of 30,-
000 citizens of Pinsk, were
hanged from telephone poles
while White Russian partisans,
who for more than three years
had been harrassing the Pinsk
garrisons, watched the execution.
The prisoners captured in vaH-
ous parts of White Russia, were
sent to stand trial in the liber-
ated towns where they had corn-
mited their worst atrocities.
One of the '15 Jevis, all that
remain in Pinsk out of approxi-
mately 50,000,. Rabbi Boris Efimo-
vich Rosenweig, who escaped
death by living for three years
in a cellar reached through a
trapdoor, t o 1 d correspondents
how the Nazis murdered his
brother, Rabbi of the Grand Syn-
agogue in Pinsk.

In Washington, the Senate
Elections Committee took note of
, the convention at which pro- Lingernan' and members of the
posals were made either to de= Wayne County, Election Commis-
port or to sterilize Jews, and is sion stated that the convention
considering a resolution to in- of the America First party was
vestigate the America First -"just a show" and that Smith al-
a party. (Senator Homer Ferguson ready was 'certified as a Presi-
dential candidate by his party be-
of Michigan is a member of the fore
the Aug. 9 deadline.
Senate Elections • Committee).
Among those who demanded
Rouse Legion's Ire .
an investigation of the Smith
The Detroit District Associa- party
is Richard. T. Frankensteen,
tion of the. American Legion has vice-president
of the UAW-CIO,
launched a campaign aimed at who
urged Attorney General Bid-
running Smith out of town.
dle to institute "a full and speedy
"After being run out of Louisi- investigation of the America First
ana, Illinois and other sections of party with a view to its early in-
this country, Smith has had the dictment under charges of sedi-
effrontery to come here, . settle tion."
time the leader of the Chicago
down and continue his money-
Silver Shirts and 'the Dearborn
Silver Shirt Leader
raising racket in this community,"
Crusaders, Storm Troop outfits,
The Independent . Jewish Press and was • arrested for smashing
L. Glen Shields, distrcicts com-
Service
revealed
this
week
that
mander, told a meeting of 100
the windows of a large Jewish
post commanders and lieutenants Maertz, the delegate who pro- Chicago department store. He
at the association's headquar- posed a plank calling' for the Was also questioned by the FBI,
deportation. of Jews from the U. which was ..investigating an ex-
ters, 375 State street north.
"Why has he been permitted to S. and the sterilization of those tortion terror campaign against
continue here so long?" Shields who wouldn't leave, was at one Jewish merchants.
asked.
The Legionnaires were 'aroused
by a statement by Harry Romer,
America First Party, nominee • for
vice-president, that "15 per cent
of those who have control of the
American Legion are the most
unloyal Americans in the coun- W 0 OD W A RD
A T
I. T A :T
try."

ALBANY (JPS)—Treatment of
dementia praecox by insulin
shock, a therapy devised by Dr.
Manfred Sakel of Vienna and
now of N. Y., has proved a suc-
cess and should be made avail-
able to all state hospitals for the
insane, the Temporary Commis-
sion on State Hospital Problems
said in a report submitted to
Gov. Dewey.

The report was based on a
study of 1,128 dementia praeccix
cases treated by Dr. Sakel's in-
sulin shock method over a period
of five and one-half years, and
a comparable group of patients
who did not receive the shock fame in 1930 when he saved
a
treatment.
life by a transfusion of blood
from a corpse eight hours old.
Blood Bank Discovery
By 1938 he had transfused blood
Laid to Jewish - Doctor
from corpses in 2,500 cases, with
NEW YORK (JPS) Prof. •S. only seven deaths.
S. Yudin of the Sklifosovski In-
stitute and Post Graduate Medi- Invention to Help
cal School of Moscow, is most re- Heavy Planes Rise
sponsible for the development of
LONDON (JPS)—A. E. Mar-
blood banks, better blood pre-
servatives and the large-scale re- golis. and T. L. Bonstow, two
search. conducted in the field of British inventors, have patented
haematology in the Soviet Union, a novel way of helping large
says Waldemar Kaempffert, N. Y. heavily loaded planes to take off,
Science News Letter reports.
Times Science editor.
They propose strong vertical
Prof. Yudin, who developed blasts of air as the planes pass
the - I.H.T. formula for a blood over them, thus boosting them off
preservative, 'achieved his first the ground.

S I EG EL CO.

Triple Probe Demanded

The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi
League to Champion Human
Rights has .demanded a triple in-
vestigation of Smith's "party"
and the creation of strong legal
penalties for actions such as were
proposed at the Detroit conven-
tion. The demands are:

I. AttOrney General Francis
Biddle was asked to institute an
immediate Grand Jury investi-
.gation of Smith and his follow-
ers.
2. Senator Theodore Green of
Rhode Island, chairman of the
Senate Special Committee to
Investigate Campaign Expend-
itures, was requested to investi-
gate "misuse of the party and
other processes" by a group
which poses as a political party.
3. Gov. Harry F. Kelly of
Michigan was urged to institute
an investigation under Michi-
gan state laws.
Prosecution Asked

Attorney General Biddle was
asked to prosecute. Mr. Smith by
the Civil Rights •Federation of
Detroit, in a telegram sent by
Jack Raskin, executive secretary.
The America First party's con-
vention did not adopt the "deport
the Jews" plank offered by Horn-
er Maertz of Chicago. An ambig-
uous plank was adopted to deal
with the "Jewish problem."
After the convention Smith stated
that the deportation plank re-
flected the views of some dele-
gates but not of the convention.
In a statement made to The
Jewish News this week, Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich-
igan . branded the proposal of
Homer Maertz as "shocking and
revolting and utterly and uncon-
scionably un-American."
The "Jewish plank" actually
adopted by the convention reads:
"We must admit that there is a
Jewish problem. It must be
solved honestly, realistically and
courageously. We shall oppose
prejudice and encourage the re-
search necessary to the solution
of this, the world's most un-
solved' problem."

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the trip to come here and that
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convention an anti-Semitic letter
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ish survivors in the liberated
city of Grodno, where 45,000
Jews lived before the outbreak
of the war.
The list was compiled by three
Grodno Jews and sent to the
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
in Moscow. Some of the 200 sur-
viving Jews have been in hiding
for more than two years in the
neighboring woods. Others fought
in partisan detachments. The
compilers of the list of survivors
are Dr. H. M. Blumstein, Abe
Tarlovsky and M. Trachtenberg.

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