Friday, November 3, 1944
THE JEWISH NEWS
WRB Answers Bricker's
Attack on Refugees' Port
Liberal Judaism Calls Upon Jews Not to Be Intimidated by
Election Slanders; Murphy Reiterates Warning
Against Race Hatred
At his press conference in Detroit on Monday after-
noon, at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Gov. Bricker reiterated
his statement made in Denver attacking the temporary
refugee shelter plan as it was set up by the War Refugee
Board.
Replying to a question put to him by a representa-
tive of The Jewish News, Gov. Bricker said that he was
opposed to deceiving the American people by bringing
in "writers, literary people and perhaps even agitators"
under the guise of refugees.
He added that Congress did not authorize the admit-
tance of these people and that they should be admitted
only under quota limits.
Bricker Called Supporter of Haven Plan
WASHINGTON (JPS) — An attack by Governor John
W. Bricker of Ohio, Republican vice-presidential candidate,
on the less than 1,000 refugees permitted temporary shelter
at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, was the latest issue to
add fuel to the presidential campaign.
The President's War Refugee Board, replying to the at-
tack, said that Governor Bricker
himself was one of the 18 gover-
nors who signed the appeal
drafted by the late Alfred E.
Smith in May, 1944, urging the
President to establish a tempo-
rary haven for refugees. The
War Refugee Board said its state-
ment was in answer to "numer-
ous inquiries from the press" as
to whether Governor Bricker had
"joined in the appeal."
Speaking in Denver, Governor
Bricker charged that though
President Roosevelt asserted that
most of the refugees would be
women and children, "instead of
pale-faced children and frail
women, the group consisted
largely of men. They were not
laboring men either, but writers,
lawyers, artists and intellectuals
generally. I am not saying that
this group was 'cleared with Sid-
ney.' I do not know."
At the time the Oswego camp
was established, organizations
concerned pointed out that by
limiting the number of refugees
to 1,000, the United States Gov-
ernment was only engaging in
"token rescue."
Coarse Anti-Semitic
Vilification Deplored
NEW YORK (JPS) — Urging
American Jews "not to be intimi-
dated by coarse anti - Semitic
vilification" which has marked
the current political campaign,
and to "vote according to prin-
ciples and conscience," the lead-
ing editorial in the November
issue of Liberal Judaism, official
organ of the Union of - American
Hebrew Congregations, also de-
plores the national disunity en-
gendered by "hack politicians
and their workers, calculated to
arouse suspicions of one group
toward another, to fan the flame
of religious and race fanatics, to
divide the country for easier po-
litical conquests."
Disclaiming any intention to
take a partisan stand in the pres-
idential election, "though it is be-
yond dispute that one party or-
ganization is guiltier than the
other in conniving at this sin of
treason against the Bill of
Rights," the editorial regards as
culpable those publications which
"daily stoop in their news col-
umns, editorials and cartoons to
the bare stratagem of highlight-
ing and grossly misrepresenting
some men of Jewish birth who
happen to be active in public life
or in the campaign."
The editorial also appeals to
other minorities subject to vilifi-
cation "to do their utmost to
demonstrate that the Bill of
Rights still stands, that there are
no second class citizens in Amer-
ica, that to whatever groups of
foreign origin, of religious de-
nominations or of race they may
belong, they are Americans all
and intend, without fear or any
other than patriotic considera-
tions, to exercise their rights at
the polls."
Charge Chicago Tribune
Leads Race Campaign
Deploring racial and religious
bigotry in the current Presiden-
tial campaign, "despite pledges
given by both sides against in-
tolerance and discrimination," a
group of 10 Christian clergymen
representing the Ministerial As-
sociates of The Protestants a
magazine, charged in a joint
statement that the "poison" of
racial intolerance is "led by the
Chicago Tribune, which has per-
sistently insinuated anti - Semit-
ism into the campaign by scurri-
lous daily references to the Jew-
ish background of Sidney Hill-
man. War plants have been
flooded with obscene anti-Jewish
poems," the statement charges.
Truman Repudiates Klan
Membership Allegation
PEORIA, Ill., (JPS) — Queried
by the Independent Jewish Press
Service with regard to a charge
in the Hearst newspapers that he
had been a member of the Ku
Klux Klan, Senator Harry S.
Truman, Democratic Vice Presi-
dential candidate, replied: "I
never belonged to the Ku Klux
Klan and I never attended any
of its meetings. As a member of
the Grand Lodge of the Missouri
Masons, I worked in 1921, before
Hearst says I joined the Klan, for
a resolution excluding Klansmen
from membership in the Grand
Lodge of Missouri. I am not anti-
Semitic and never have been."
According to the report in the
Hearst newspapers, former Klan
officials had sworn out affidavits
testifying that he had been a
member. B. C. Loar, of Inde-
pendence, Mo., named in the af-
fidavit as the man who officiated
at the alleged induction of Sena-
tor Truman into the Klan, stated:
"So far as I can remember, Harry
Truman was opposed to the
Klan."
Justice Frank Murphy
Warns Against Race-Hate
NEW YORK (JPS)—Supreme
Court Justice Frank Murphy
warned that the American people
must awaken in time to the "in-
sidious nature" of racial and re-
ligious intolerance, in accepting
the original painting of the
1944-'45 "Free and Equal" seal
which the Council Against Intol-
erance in America will distribute
in a nationwide campaign.
N. Y. Council President
Warns of Postwar Fascism
NEW YORK (JPS) — Fascism
in the United States has gone un-
derground since the outbreak of
the war, but will re-emerge with
the peace, Newbold Morris, presi-
dent of the New York City Coun-
cil, warned at the third constitu-
tional convention of the United
Federal Workers of America,
CIO, here.
"Fascism is a way of life, a
force, a germ. Fascism is right
here within our own gate," Mr.
Morris warned, "suppressed for
the time being, but still here.
When war came, Fascism went
underground. It will emerge
with the peace. We have to mo-
bilize public opinion to fight it."
Senate Committeemen
Investigate Hillman Smear
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)-
An investigation of a widespread
"smear campaign" against Sid-
ney Hillman, head of the Con-
gress of Industrial Organization's
Political Actions Committee, has
been undertaken by the Senate
Campaign Expenditure Commit-
tee, Hillman's Jewish descent
Page Seven
Council-Center Jewish Youth League Elects Officers,
Concert Nov. 19 Announces Plans for Coming Year
At its annual election meeting her co-chairman. Akivah Drag-
Will Feature Edgar Mills,
presided over by Louis L. Rosen, nin will head the program-cul-
Julius Chajes, Bernard Ar-
the League of Detroit Jewish
Youth announced the following tural committee. All interested.
giewicz, Art Grossman
The second event in the series
of eight Yiddish cultural pro-
grams, planned by the joint Yid-
dish culture committee of the
Jewish Community Center and
Jewish Community Council, will
be a concert of Jewish music on
Sunday evening, Nov. 19, in the
auditorium of the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The featured artist will be Ed-
gar Mills, baritone, of Newark,
N. J., a cantor in that city, who
was formerly associated with the
Vienna Folk Opera. He has ap-
peared twice on the Festival of
Jewish Art programs at Town
Hall, New York, under the di-
rection of the noted composer,
Jacob Weinberg, and with the
Workmen's Circle Chorus in the
choral ballet "Fight for Free-
dom." He has an extensive reper-
toire of Yiddish and Hebrew folk
music from which he will select
his program fo- this concert;
Sharing the program with Mr.
Mills will be an instrumental
trio made up of Julius Chajes,
pianist, Bernard Argiewicz, cell-
ist, and Arthur Grossman, violin-
ist. Mr. Chajes is music director
of the Jewish Community Center.
Mr. Argiewicz and Mr. Gross-
man are members of the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets are available at the
Jewish Community Center, Jew-
ish Community Council and
through delegates of the Yiddish
speaking organizations affiliated
with the Community Council.
Organizations may receive blocks
of tickets at reduced prices.
officers and board of directors. in working on any of these com-
mittees can contact Martha
President, Bertha Belkin (Jr.
Gleicher,
7-2242.
Home Relief) ; first vice presi-
dent, Martha Gleicher (Jewish
Youth Forum) ; second vice pres- Dr. Wise Gives $10,000
ident, Louis L. Rosen (Junior To Danish Relief Work
Service Group); recording sec-
retary,., Ruth Rabinowitz (Na-
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Dan-
tional Council Jewish Jrs.); cor-
ish Minister to the U. S., Dr.
responding secretary, Estelle
Henrik de Kauffmann, revealed
Logan (Bnai Brith Pisgah); that he received a gift of $10,000
treasurer, Nettie Seligson (Sig-
from the Stephen S. Wise Birth-
ma Theta Delta); members at
day Fund to be used for refugee
large, Harold Novek, Sidney work and that he is turning this
Alpert, Bluma Nagler, Corrine sum over to the American Den-
Perliss, Helen Schneider, Man- mark Relief, Inc.
uel Simons, Shirley Stocker,
Dr. Wise had allocated $10,000
who is also the war efforts chair-
for Danish Relief from the
man.
monies he received for the birth-
Plans for the year were form- day fund on the occasion of a
ulated by the 18 affiliated youth 70th birthday celebration, ex-
organizations to include:
tended to him by the Jewish
A Jewish Leadership institute community of Los Angeles to
incorporating cultural and edu- be distributed in the manner he
cational aspects of community deemed most worthy.
living; a Youth Speaks program
for open forum discussions; a
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social and legislative committee;
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a war efforts committee to con-
tinue USO and other services; a
publicity committee.
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Miss Belkin. appointed Lillian
Fisher chairman of the publicity
2231-35 Woodward Next to Fox Theatre
Open Evenings
committee and Sidney Alpert as
SIBLEY'S
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and "rabbinical education" have
been the subjects of anti-Semitic
innuendo injected into the cur-
rent Presidential campaign.
Daily News Strikes Again
Against Mr. Roosevelt
.
NEW YORK (JPS)—Asserting
that in this campaign "race prej-
udices and issues are more than
normally out in the open, and
more hotly discussed," the Daily
News, New York member of the
McCormick-Patterson press axis
which came under attack by
President Roosevelt in his speech
before the Foreign Policy Asso-•
ciation, asks: "Does Roosevelt
really clear everything with
Sidney Hillman?"
Joel Slonim, Yiddish
Poet, Succumbs at 60
NEW YORK (JPS)—Joel Slo-
nim, Yiddish poet and journalist,
close friend of the leading U. S.
political figures, died at the age
of 60. He was a member of the
editorial staff of The Day, Yid-
dish daily. Born in Dragotchin,
White Russia, he was brought
here by his parents when 2.
Announcing
The Opening of
Metro
Music
House
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
(Open House)
A music store to serve
the needs of the com-
munity .. Music for
the home and for the
professional. Featur-
ing a large collection
of Victor. Columbia,
Decca. Asch and other
records, with special
attention to Russian
and Jewish music and
records for children.
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