Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-08-25

              Archaeological & Historlcai Mua- N. High St. at IBth—1
^|\^^ Serving Colmnbus and Central Ohio Jewish Communiiy \yA\^
Vol. 22, No. .-M
Entered as Second-Class Matter, PoHtofflce   Columbus., Ohio.
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAV, AVGUST 25, 1044
D«yot«d   to  AmiHcAn and  Jiwlih   ld«aU
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   Prom   Bverywhoro By Phlnenx ,1. Blron
THINOS TO WATCH . . .
Ro The Amerlean Nationalist Party is boa.iting of a myRtery man nn wliom it depends to build up a powerful ne^ anil- refugee, anti-Semitic and anti- <;I0 poiitinal campaign . . . Tlie headquarters of this campaign are   In   Gerald   K.   Smith's    De-
Nazi.s Slew 2,500,000 Jews In Poland
trolt office . . . The imy.stery man i.'i .Joseph n. Kamp, who.is sta¬ tioned In Washington . . . Kamp receivefl a serious sethaclt when Ford refused to cooperate with him financially . . . Kamp Is or¬ ganizing  an  anti-Semitic  politi¬ cal party, as yet unnamed, that will act as tho propaganda out¬ let  for the American  National¬ ists ... He is readying two anti- Semitic boolcs  .  .  .  The  Kamp plan  is  blue-printed  to  go  be¬ yond  the   present    presidential campaign, and is designefl to hit on al! cylinders after the boys come back'home from the battle¬ fields . . . Victor Riesel, the labor columnist, broke the news about the  coming  campaign,  but  for some    reason    refrained    from branding Kamp. SIDEIJGHT8 ... IB55 Enemies of Sidney Hiliman, head of the CIO  Political  Act- Ion   Committee   and   America's first  political  laboi*  leader,  are trying   to   undermine   him   by emptiasizing that he once stud¬ ied for the rabbinate . . . When the Tucson, Ariz., Daily Citizen implied that Hollywood's Helen Oahagen   should   run   for   Con¬ gress un<ler her real name, and not use one dreamed  up by a" press agent, was it in the hope that Miss Gahagen would inden- tify   iierself   as   Mrs.    Meivyn Douglas or that she would use her  husband's    original    name, Hesselberg — and thus become the  target of  the antiSemities among her political opponents? . . . The Gestapo has officially announced    that    its    work of clearing   Holland   of   Jews   has been completed . . . "Ttiiere are no  more Jews at  large  in the Netherlands",  the  Nazis  proud¬ ly proclaim . . . Fritz Mandl, who is   the   greal   manufacturer   of .A.rgentlna'8 ,:, Fascist     military machine   ai>'fti..a .friend  of  the Nazis, Is a r'Sglfer.reMUent char¬ acter  .  .  ., Bijjrti.'tl^pstrla  of Jewish parent^^e'^-iijfij^^ame a convert  to  CathpllcfSn!,  and  is now an Argentine cftjizen .  . Ihe was once decorted by Mus¬ solini    for   supplying   him, on credit, with ammunition for his Ethiopian campaign ... He did ¦  plenty of business with Hitler, too  ...  No  wonder Hedy La- marr   divorced   him   about   ten years ago ... In Hedy's Holly¬ wood, incidentally, they're now saying that, to Judge from their perlormance   on   various   Euro- pemi  fronts,  the Germans sure are master racers ... WOKDS .AND MtSIC . . , ^ Don't   miss   Bernard   De Vo to's   "The   E)a.sy   Chair"   in   the Augu.st   i.ssue  of  Harper's  .   .   . It Ihrciws new light on Boston's incipient  pogroms   .   .   .   Franz Hoeilering,   whose   new   novel, •¦I'\irlouBli", we hope you'll read, is one of the  few  who openly defied  Hitler and  lived- to  tell the tale ... As editor of a Der¬ lin newspaper he printed, on a single   page   and  .without  com ment, a collection of the various mutually   contradictory   official Nazi accounts of the Reichstag fire ... Of course, Hoellering didn't stay In Berlin long after (Continued on Page 8)
I,ONnON (WNS)—More than 2,500,000 Jews have been exter¬ minated V)y th'e Nazis in Ger¬ man-held Poland, it was dis¬ closed this week by Dr. Jo.sef Refinger, a Polish lalxir leadei' whn ha.','' recently returned here from a clandestine visit to the underground movement in Po¬ lanil.
Di'. Rolingor said that his esti¬ mate of the number of Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis'was based on informa¬ tion he received from Polish feaders and from prominent Jews who evaded death by hid¬ ing "in the homes of friendly Poles; He revealed that the Zionist Party and the Jewish Labor Bund are .still function¬ ing and that eighteen Zionist ,ind three Bund batallions had participated in the anti-Nazi re¬ volt In the Warsaw ghetto. He said that among the 200,000 Jews believed to be still alive in Po¬ land there are numbers of Dutch and Relgium Jews In Warsaw engaged in slave labor. Dr Retingcr said that he was not inclined to lend much cred¬ ence to the recent report that Leon Blum» former French Pre¬ mier, had died in a Jewish exter¬ mination camp in Poland. He said the PolLsh underground movement, \vhlch is usually well informed on such matters, found no evidence of Blum's presence or execution in Poland.
Schanfarber Meinorial
Campaign Forges Ahead
One-Half Of Hungary's .lews With Palestine Visas Dead
B'nai B'rith To Meet Sept. 12 With Guest Speaker
Zion Lodge No. lf>2, li'nai li'rith will. oi>en the regular schedule nf meetings at the East Hroad St. Temple, on Tuesday, September 12, it was announced this week.
The second Tuesday in Sep- tem.bcr was , selected for ivie opening meeting because of the Holiday period in Rept^ember, The Jewish War Veterans are cooperating with, B'nal B'rith by postponing their meeting from the second Tuesday until the fourth Tuesday.
An outstanding speaker has heen contacled for this big meet¬ ing, according to Edward Schlez¬ lnger, president,- as It will open the Fall program of events, 'fhe next meeling will ,be the first Tuesday in October and from then on the regular sche¬ dule ot the first and third Tuesdays will be maintained.
8   LIBJSKM-IN   BROTHEItS IN  SERVICE,   FROM PRIVATE TO MAJOR
DETROIT (JPSl—Mr. and Mrs. Max Lllierman of Manis- tlque, Michigan, have eight sons in the service, ranging from a Pfc. to a Major, and, to supple¬ ment their record, they al.so have a aon-in-law in service. Last winter, Mr. Llberman was designated by Secretary of the Treasuary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as "E Bond Father of Mich Igan", .during the Fourth War Loan campaign, for having sev¬ en sons in service' The oldest son in service Is Major Louis E. Llberman, 31, who enlisted In 1941 and has recently been pro¬ moted to the rank of major. The youngest, Harold, 18, haa just beep Inducted.
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¦VVA.SHI.VCTON (JPS) —For at lea.st some twenty thousand Jews In Hungary the news ot concerted rescue action by the governments of the United Sta¬ tes and Great firitain has come too. late. The State Depart¬ ment has received Information, the Independent Jewish Press Service learns, that at least half of th6 eight thousand Jews In Hungary In possession of Pales¬ tine certificates have perished In the past few months, either In deportation camps in Poland or in the ghettos of Hungary. Each f'alestine certificate pro¬ vides for the admission ot the principal and his dependents, a category including wife, parents, and children who have not yet reached their majority. Accord¬ ing to the more optimistic esti¬ mates, the four thousand sur¬ viving principals with their de¬ pendents constitute twenty thousand persons. Authorities on the vital statistics of Occu pied Europe point out that It Is hardly likely that there still re¬ main five persons per Jewish family.
It has also been learned that dt?.«pite pressure by the War Refugee Hoard. Britain did not unliend with regard tn the Palestine White Paper policy. Maintenance of (ho White Paper will seriously restrict rescue possihilities. Authoritative quar¬ ters express fear, moreover, that whatever action might be plan ned by the U. S. and Britain as a consequence of their acceptance of Regent Horlhy's otter to re !eaf',e certain categories of Jews, it is ill<ely 10 be lmpede<i by the Germans, who now seek to use the Jews from Constanza^ Ro¬ mania, to the Turkish port, en route to Palestine, is viewed as an Indication of a new German policy. If this conjecture be cor reel, it woukl justify fears ex¬ pressed by British newspapers immediately upon the announce¬ ment of Regent Horthy's Offer, that lhe Regent may no longer be in a position to abide by his promise. ^^
.Anierlcnn   Palchtliu.   Committoo Appeals  To  !•'.  D.  R.
The American Palestine Com¬ mittee, founded by Senator Rob¬ ert 1'". Wagner and the late Sena¬ tor Charles L. McNary and speaking for over tour thousand members, including se,nators. Congressmen, governors and e'<lucators, petiti(med President Roo.sevelt liiut "the governmetu of the United Stales use its good offices tn seciu'e the itnme<llate grant l),v Great Britain. Irrespec¬ tive of previous policies, of Im¬ migration certificates inlo Pal¬ estine for ail Jews whn can be rescue<l from Hungary an<l other Nazi - dominated coun¬ tries". The appeal urges "that our government he empowered to finance the transportation of such refugee emigration and to provide all facilities that may be In Us power to offer" for their transfer to Palestine or any other country that will ad¬ mit them.
Substantia! progress is being reported in the far-reach-, ing campaign to raise $100,000 for the Edwin J. Schanfar¬ ber Memorial Fund, proceeds from which will be used for a new home for the B'nai B'rith Hiilel Foundation at Ohio Stale University.
Under the leadership of .'VUen Gundersheimer, chair¬ man ot the local fund-raising committee, volunteer workers arc turning in a steady stream of subscriptions to Julius W. Steinhauser, treasurer ot the fund, with offices at the F. & R, La-«arus & Co.
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ON    "PALESTINE    SPEAKS
BROADCAST SUNDAY
AT  2!.t0  P.  M.
Judith Evelyn
The dramatic story of how an American nurse singlehandedly cleaned up a typhoid epidemic and won hor own victory over ancient superstition is the theme of this Sunday's chapter of "Palestine Speaks!" — the series of true stories about the world's oldest frontier being presented each Sunday after¬ noon over station WHKC at 2;30 P. M., under the auspices of the Columbus District of the Zion¬ ist Organi'/.atkm of America.
Judith Evelyn, star nf the liroaduay hit "Angel Street" ap¬ pears as Nur.se Ho.se .Natham in this tense story of a woman alone. Supporting Miss Evelyn are Joseph di Santis, William Woodson, and Ben Grauer of In¬ formation Please and the Jer- gens Journal.
In addition to the list of sui)- scribers reported in la.st week's issue of The Chro,niole. Mr. Steinhauser announces the fol¬ lowing: Dr. B. W. Al^ramson, Ralibi l-iarry Kaplah, Saul Ru¬ hen & Sons, Jake Slierman, Rob¬ ert Weller, Mrs. Sidney Marks, Lee E. llnvis, Adolph Loeb, Ben Rich, Joseph Cohen, Isa- (loie Thall, .Sam Ryalos, Ben Boinheim, .'5am Marx, Louis Press, Dave Ijevlnson, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Jay, In memory bf Hairy Freldenberg; Mr. and Mrs. Julius C:. Feibel, Sol Shenk, Mr. and Mrs. Nel.son Thall, in memory of Amelia Gunder¬ sheimer; Emma and Birdie Ro.s¬ enthal, in memory of Amelia Gundersheimer.
Harry Lurie, Sain Staub, Max H. Harmon. Mrs. W. A. Hersch, Harry Zelger, M. J. Leeman, Henry Judis, Harpy P. Lleb- schulz and Mr. and Mrs. Her¬ bert Wise.
David Gerstenfeld. O.scar Ber man, Nathan Wasserstrom. & Sons, Inc.; Morris Brown and Leon li. GoldsmiUi, Ktta -and AVaiter i''ranc and Graf'e Marks, May Associated Stores and Ben A. Xuclterman.
YOUNtJ .JEWISH  ARTIST HAIIjED FOR WAR PAINTINGS
NEW VOKK (JPS)—An crit it's hailed the war paintings of David Fi'edenthal, an artist on the st.iff of Life Magazine. Re¬ productions of the paintings cnmnieiuled by the critics, ap¬ pear In the current is.sue of Life and depict the landing of U. S, troops on the sotithern-tip of Now   Britain,
PROPOSE PLANKS TO RESCUE JEWS
NEW VORK UPS)—In order to .save Hungai'lan Jews from a "final maniacal outburst" from Hitler In Axis .satellite coun¬ tries, a proposal that passenger planes of neutral countries be used to transport Jewish refu¬ gees from Hungary to Palestine was made by the Emergency Committee to Save The Jewish People of Europe.
WISE  JOINS   PROTEST R.VLLV SPONSORS
NEW VORK (JPS) — Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, joined the list of co-chairmen of the forthcoming mass rally against Nazi Persecution of European minoritle.s, spon¬ sored by the New York Journal American, a Hearst, newspaper. The rally, to be held September 1(1, ut Itandali Island Stadium, is headed hy Mayor Fioreiio H. La Guardta' as chairman and six co-chairmen.
RltONX   HAILS (iUNNER JOE
NKW VOKK (JPSl—A nelgh- linrlinnd war Ixmd rally was part uf (he rousing welcnnie given to Gunner Sergeant Jos eph Schindelman of the Bronx, who is liome on a twenty-one ilay furlough after completing fifty-one combat missions, one of which was the first sortie over the Ploestl oil fields on Romania. Attending the cele¬ bration were large delegations from the American Legion, Jewish and Catholic War vet¬ erans and olher organizations.
W. V. AU.\)L HAK   NATIi.  I
I ARV TO RESIDENT
.lessie ('. Gneshin, of New Vork City. National President nf the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary, will be the honored guest ai a luncheon to be given at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel this Sunday noon, Aug. 27th.
Following the luncheon a meeting will he held at 1::00 P. M., which IB to he presided over by Ida London, Department President, Cleveland, 0.
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