Friday, June I, 1945 400,000 Byelorussian Jews Reported Killed by Germans Member of Soviet Delegation to United Nations Confer- ence Tells of Seeing Bodies of Thousands of Children Being Disinterred From Mass Graves SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—Approximately 400,000 Jews were massacred by the Germans in Byelorussia, Kuzma Kiselev, head of the Byelorussian delegation to the United Nations Conference, told press conference. "As a member of the investigating commission I saw how thou- sands of murdered Jewish children were disinterred from mass- graves in the suburbs of Minsk, Orsha, Vitebsk, Gomel and other Byelorussian cities from which the Germans were driven by the Red' Army," Kiselev said. He estimated that in Minsk 80 percent of the entire Jewish , population was annilated during the German occupation, in Gomel 90 percent of the Jews were murdered, while in Orsha practically all the Jews were killed, Jewish partisans who fought against the Germans, as well as Jews who have been evacuated into the interior of the USRR, are now returning to their home towns in ByeloruSsia and are beginning to rebuild life anew, the Soviet representative reported. -Document Ordering Revenge for Von Rath Assassination Found PARIS, (JTA)—The alleged "spontaneous" anti-Jewish out- burst which occurred throughout Germany in November, 1938, fol- lowing the assassination in Paris of Ernst vom Rath, a German embassy official, by a Jewish refugee youth, Herschel Grynzpan, was carefully _planned and executed by the Gestapo, the French radio said this week, quoting a recently discovered Gestapo docu- ment. - , The Gestapo order was signed by an official named Mueller, the broadcast said. It read as follows: "Anti-Jewish demonstra- tions are to be staged immediately throughout Germany, resulting in the arrest of 20,000 to 30,000 Jews, mainly people of means. Fur- ther instructions will be given in the course of the night." A supplementary document; signed by Reinhard Ileydrich, covering the events of the night of NOV. 8-9, contained the following instructions: "The demonstrations tonight must be organized in such a way that neither German lives or property are endangered. Synagogues must be fired, but precautions should be taken to avoid damage to adjoining buildings." The broadcast stressed that the pogrom was carried out exactly in accordance with the Gestapo instructions. THE JEWISH NEWS Page Three Weekly Review of the News of the World (Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service) AMERICA PALESTINE An international trusteeship under which Palestine would be administered jointly by Great Britain, the United States, Russia, China and France, was called for as the only arrangement under which relations between Jews and Arabs in Palestine can be adjust- ed, by the Reverend Dr. Carl Voss, extension secretary of the Church Peace Union. Dr. Voss spoke at a meeting of 100 group leaders of the New York Chapter of Hadassah. Two violently anti-Semitic publications, the "Gentile News, published by Eugene Flit- craft, and the "Jew Refugee," published by Ainslee E. Homey, are being widely cir- culated through mailing • lists of the Amer.. ican Beauty Products Co., in Chicago, Mil- burn P. Akers, Field Publications staff writer, reports. The Mark Hopkins Hotel, largest in San Francisco, where the British and other foreign delegates to the World Security Conference are headquartered, has cancelled its contract with Gerald L. K. Smith, leader of the Iso- lationist America First Party Rally. Smith has threatened to picket the hotel using mem- bers of "We, The Mothers, Mobilize," a soft- pease "mothers" group as pickets. Ration cards marked' "Jews" will be given to Germans in Czechoslovakia who will here- after receive the same rations of food they allowed Jews during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Majer, new Czecho- slovak Minister of Food, announced over the Prague radio in a broadcast recorded by the Office of War Information in New York. Dr. Albert Einstein, noted physicist, in an interview for the -Chicago Defender, largest Negro weekly in the United States, condemn- ed Rep. John E. Rankin, (D. Miss.) as "a politician who believes he can make gains in employing" racial bigotry. Dr. Einstein said he believed that the Negro problem, to some extent can be solved by law, "but the most important thing cannot be done by law, but only by the people. To overcome discrimina- tion every person has to show that he is op- posed to discrimination." • Rallying other Arab countries to join in the crusade, Makram Elbeid Pasha, Egypt's minister of finance, told the Egyptian Cham- bers of Deputies that it .is the declared inten- • tion of the Egyptian Government' to conduct a systematic campaign against Palestine Jewry in the economic sphere. He made this state- ment in the course of an address regarding the new budget, and did not conceal the fact that Egypt stands to profit by capturing Mid- dle East markets, and that his ,country feared the progreis of Jewish Palestine's industry. . . . It amused commercial and industrial cir- cles in Palestine that while the Egyptian fi- nance minister stressed that Egypt stood to profit from flooding the Arab market in Pal- estine, he ignored the possibility that Pales- tine Jewry, constituting one of the most lucra- tive markets in the Middle East, might retal- iate by shunning all goods from Egypt /and other Arab countries. Lt. C.N.P. Williams, an Englishman con- verted to Judaism, is included in the first cas- ualty-list of officers and non-coms of the Jew- ish Brigade. Lts. Y. Granovsky and J. Gluck- lich, and Second Lts. R. M. Barkay, A. David- son and 'Daniel Cornfeld were wounded. Oth- er Brigade casualties are Warrant Officer L. Hershkowitz,' killed, and Sapper A. Deutsch and Gunner M. Grunwald, wounded. _ The. Hebrew papers published editorials urging that the war on the terrorist gangs, which have resumed their activities, be waged relentlessly. An official announcement issued by the Palestine Government states: "In the early hours this morning (May 24), in the Beisan area, the Iraq Petroleum Company's pipeline was blown up by unknown saboteurs and se- vered at two places. Three telegraph poles were damaged by explosives, and four were mined, in the same vicinity."The announce- ment points out that the Jerusalem pipeline carries fuel vital to the conduct of the war against the Japanese and that attacks on the line constitute direct interference with the war effort. (See also Page 14) Anti-Semitism Up in France Leon Blum Confirms Reports of Anti-Jewish Activities in Recent Months • PARIS (JPS) — A fortnight after his liberation from a Ger- man concentration camp, Leon Blum, former prime minister of France, told a delegation of Jew- ish representatives here that he could only confirm their impres- sion that anti-Semitism was on the increase in France. He pledg- ed his assistance, in the fight against anti-Semiti sm., The delegation, representing all Jewish parties, came to plead with Blum that h e recurit the support o f his Socialist friends a n d intercede with govern- ment authorities to the end that ant i - Semitic d e inonstrations, current in r e - cent months, be Leon B l um curbed. The Jews are especially dis- turbed over the anti-Semitic mass meetings which marked Whitsun celebrations in Paris, Lyons and Marseilles. Demonstrations car- ried placards on which was in- scribed the slogan: "France for the'French Crematoria for Jews." During t h e demonstration, hooligans assaulted Jews i n Paris streets. A delegation rep- resenting the anti-Semitic dem- onstrators was received by Vice Mayor Pantan and submitted to him a resolution attacking the Jews.. This took place several days: after a meeting, to have been addressed by David ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, was banned by , the authorities. In all inci- dents when Jews. were assaulted the police are reported to have remained "neutral." Pioneer Women Send $25,000 to Rescue Fund NEW YORK—An additional sum of $25,000 on behalf of the Child Rescue Fund of the Pioneer Women's Organization has been forwarded to the Jewish Agency in Palestine, according to the an- nouncement of Miss Dvorah Roth- bard, national secretary. This amount was raised by clubs in the 1J. S. and Canada during the cur- rent two-month drive. show diversified silhouettes Creamy white Panama from Ecuador is supple and fine in texture----here woven into a variety of flattering new silhouettes. Sketched are three 'from our collection with contrasting dark touches of rayon grosgrain. Top—CLOCHE with prettily molded brim.. $12.95 Middle—SAILOR with a brief brim. $14.95 Bottom—BLOUSED CROWN and a wider brim. $13.95 Seventh Floor—Woodward—Section F