Friday, December 21, • 1945

THE JEWISH NEWS

Conference Calls
Interim Parley
Within 90 Days

Jewish Youth's

LISTENING

CANNIBALS!

Members of U.S
Inquiry Board

Committee Reverses Early
Decision for Emergency
Meeting in N. Y.

O
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By Danny Raskin

MAIN REASON for unsuccess-
ful and slow-growing member-
ship drives by youth organiza-
tions is an obvious lack of coop-
eration on the part of members.
This is more so among female
groups. Seems the gals always
have something else to do at the
wrong time. It must be realized
that if no interest is shown by
them, no interest can be expect-
ed by others. Another factor
which cannot be overlooked is
the unplanned presentation of
membership dances. Why any
group would choose to present
an open affair in a site with lim-
ited capacity is beyond us! . . .
What kind of organizations are
they who drive for membership
and then drive people away?
THE NEW basketball squad Al
Betz will manage in the Class A
Recreation League includes three
war heroes . . . Ben Stein has
the Silver Star for knocking out
a German machine gun nest sin-
gle-handed . . . Joe Friedman
was with the engineers who
pumped oil from England to
Germany in the secret weapon
which played such a major role
in achieving victory. They laid
the pipes straight on through
France . . • Sid Wrier was com-
manding officer of an American
blimp that took a great toll of
Nazi subs . . . and aided in des-
troying the enemy's under-water
menace.
• • •
HUMOR DEPT. . . . "Dya'
know where there's a nice 3-room
apartment?"
* * *
THERE'S A LARGE amount
of Bnai Brith activity in Hono-
lulu, reports Elias Springer . . .
but no BB lodge . . . He writes
that Hollywood obviously has
imported all the hula dancers
. . . or else they had them in
the first place! . . . Elias is now
a resident of Honolulu . . . un-
der civilian contract with the
Navy Department.
VICTORY REUNION is the
title of the next Holiday Hop
dance at the Jewish Center, Sun-
day, Dec. 23 . .. Top-notch mu-
sic by Stan Howard's fine band.
CROSS THE RIVER, in Wind-
sor, the Jewish Youth Council
has a rejuvenation . . . Doing a
great job of "getting the ball
rolling" again, and bent on giv-
ing it a long ride.
* *
HA HA DEPT. . . . The local
"know-it-all" who took his first
fling at the races and put $5 on
a cold nose . . . even after being
told by old-timers that the nag
loved to play "Follow-the-leader"
... now realizes that the money,
small amount as it was, would
have brought him more winnings
had he given it to charity instead.
* * *
SHORT NOTES . . . Oscar
Band, the lumber gent, who hat-
ed the sight of mustaches, is now
sporting one, himself . . . That is,
he has the start of one, not quite
ready for trimming. The mar-
riage of Lou Schwartz and Mary
Cicurel last week almost turned
into a parade when 20 walked
the aisles in the procession.
* * *
WHO SAID the USO is of no
use now that the war is over!
Over 80 GIs crammed the JWB
lounge at the Center for Sunday
morning bagel and lox.
* * *
IT ISN'T UNUSUAL for a guy
in khaki to drive his buddies
mad with pictures of his wife and
daughter, but S/Sgt. Abe Feld-
man gained such a notorious re-
putation that an article was writ-
ten about him by a correspond-
ent in Hawaii . . . He's home-
ward bound and prepared for a
big surprise . . . Little Paula
was only five months old the last
time he saw her . . . and at 21
months she's a big girl now.

•

Confirms Nazis Ran
Human Soap Factory

Zionists Launch
National Drive for
250,000 Members

WASHINGTON — In response
to Dr. Abba Hillel Silver's call
for the mobilization of a "still
unorganized supporters of our
cause", a nationwide campaign
for the enrollment of 250,000
members within the Zionist Or-
ganization of America is in pro-
gress, according to Dr. Emanuel
Neumann, acting president of the
organization.
More than 65,000 members al-
ready have been enrolled since
Oct. 1.

11 National Organizations
Aid JDC Collection of
Supplies for Survivors.

Committee Urges
Unused U. S. Visas
For Stateless Jews

—International Photos

Above are three of the four
members of the U. S. commit-
tee named to the joint Board of
Inquiry on Palestine, to include
five British members: Top is
Federal Judge JOSEPH C. HUT-
CHESON, of Houston, Tex.; Sec-
ond, MAX GARDINER, former
governor of North Carolina, and
(bottom), FRANK BUXTON,
Boston Herald editor.

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Menuhim Pleads for
Hitler's Conductor

His Defense of Furtwaengler
Is Denounced by Ira A.
NEW YORK (JPS)—The first
Hirschmann
American eye witness confirma-

tion of reports that the Germans
used the bodies of their death
camp victims in the manufacture
of soap, was given by Col. Ed-
ward J. York, U. S. Army, who
visited a former German concen-
tration camp at Danzig, the As-
sociated press reports from War-
saw.
Colonel York said he saw long
rows of aluminum vats at the
camp, some of which still con-
tained partially decomposed hu-
man torsos and limbs. On the
walls alongside each vat were
recipes in German, instructing
the "cookers" how long parts of
human flesh should be boiled and
how to extract the fats.

At its bi-monthly meeting in
New York on Dec. 13, the In-
terim Committee decided that
the Third Session of the Ameri-
can Jewish Conference should be
held wtihin 90 days.
This decision was dictated by
deterioration of the Jewish posi-
tion, as revealed in a comprehen-
sive review of conditions in Eu-
rope, the Near East and Palestine,
which require concerted and
quick action on the part of
American Jewry.
The appointment of the Anglo-
American Inquiry Committee on
Palestine presents a new devel-
opment which will have great
bearing on the future of the
Jewish National Home.
The final tragic denouement
which threatens the 100,000 dis-
placed and stateless Jews in
Germany, whose number is con-
stantly augmented by continued
migration from recently liberat-
ed countries, must be averted.
Jewish demands for repara-
tions, indemnification and resti-
tution meet with 'many obstacles,
and a policy of appropriate ac-
tion must be formulated to at-
tain the objectives defined by the
two sessions of the Conference.
The attempt of minority groups
to divide American Jewry and
misrepresent the attitude of the
overwhelming majority toward
the Palestine problem is another
question that requires immediate
attention.
In light of the changing situa-
tion, the Interim Committee re-
versed a previous decision of the
executive committee to call the
Third Session sometime in May,
and directed the Executive to
insure the holding of the third
session in the course of the next
90 days.

Unused U. S. immigration
quotas should be utilized for the
admission of stateless and unre-
patriable European Jews, the
American Jewish Committee de-
clared in a letter to Secretary of
State Byrnes, following a recent
visit to Mr. Brynes by Jacob
Blaustein, chairman of the Com-
mittee's executive committee, and
John Slawson, executive vice-
president.
During the visit, Mr. Byrnes
had invited the Committee to
submit information on the ques-
tion.
Mr. Blaustein pointed out that
not more than six per cent of
the available U. S. immigration
quotas for the • European area
were filled during the fiscal year
1944, July 1944-June 1945, and
estimated that the figure for the
fiscal year 1945, July 1945-June
1946, will be equally low if not
lower.

Page Seventeen

Contributions of quick-energy
foodstuffs in bulk; children's
kits; comfort items; medicines,
and complete layettes are begin-
ning to arrive in large quantities
at the New York warehouse of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee, in the National Jewish Over-
seas Relief Supplies Collection
which the JDC is sponsoring in
cooperation with 11 national
Jewish organizations, it was an-
nounced at offices of the commit-
tee, 270 Madison Ave., N. Y.
Terming the collection cam-
paign a "life-saving project," Dr.
Joseph J. Schwartz, European
chairman of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, who returned
from Europe last week, declared
that "the nearly 1,500,000 survi-
vors are in desperate need of
every type of aid. The newly-
born this winter—the hope and
future of the beaten and oppres-
sed of Europe today—will die
unless they have something to
keep them warm. They must
be saved."

NEW YORK, (JPS)—The pro-
posal of Yehudi Menuhin, violin
virtuoso, that Wilhelm Furtwa-
engler, conductor in good stand-
ing of the Berlin Philharmonic
throughout the Nazi regime, be
forgiven and accepted by the
Allied world, has shocked music
circles here.

Mr. Menuhin's defense of Furl-
waengler is on the grounds that
he "refused to give the Nazi
salute at concerts" and "held on
to the Jewish members of his
orchestra as long as he possibly
could," was denounced by Ira A.
Hirschmann, founder and presi-
dent of the New Friends of
Music.

A check up of Furtwaengler's
career reveals that since 1934 he
consistently enjoyed the favor
and patronage of Hitler and top
Nazis.
Menuhin, whose parents were
Hebrew teachers, came from Pal-
estine, at first boasted his Jewish-
ness. Later in his career, how-
ever, articles about him asserted
that his father was a Cossack and
his mother a Gypsy.

Bnai Brith Receives
Navy Dept's Citation

BOSTON — Bnai Brith became
the first civilian organization to
receive a special Navy citation
for service to the nation in the
war effort when Rear Adm. For-
rest P. Sherman, former chief of
staff to Adm. Nimitz, as the of-
ficial representative of the U. S.
Navy Department, presented a
certificate of achievement to
Henry Monsky, president of Bnai
Brith, "in recognition of except-
ional accomplishment in behalf
of the U. S. Navy and of meritor-
ious contribution to the national
war effort."
The citation was presented be-
fore more than 1,000 leaders of
the Boston community at a din-
ner in honor of Mr. Monsky by
the Greater Boston Bnai Brith.
Boston was selected for the pre-
sentation because Bnai Brith's
serve-a-ship program originated
in Boston through the efforts of
Lt. Col. Elliot Niles, who sold
Bnai Brith's Amos Lodge on
serving the battleship Massachu-
setts in the Spring of 1942.

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