Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-02-11

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S[\w   Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community
Vol. 22, No, 7
Entered Q3 Second-Class Matter. Postofflco    Columbus..  Ohio.
COM'MIHH, OHIO,  KIUDAV,  I'HBIlrAUV   II,  jnM
Strictly Confidential
TIdblU Prom S:Ter]rwhere By Phtneas J.  Blron
l.IHTKjV HKKE . . .
^ Pierre van F'.nassen, hn.>iinB his information on a .Itnvi.sh Telegr,ipliic Agency news story, Htartleii the recent New Yrtrl< Conference of the United Pales tine Appeal when he told his listeners that the State Depart went had notified the Selective Service Comml.ssion that Wa.sh- ington henceforth recognizes Palestine ns a co-belligerent . None of the Zionist leaders had recognized the tremendous poli¬ tical significance of this change until Van Paassen pointed it out. . . . Supreme Court .lustice Frank Murphy's Christian commitlee to defend .Jewish right.'? and help in the rescue of European .lew- ry-!-the Committeo of which Wendell Willkle is vice chairman —has heen in close consultation with .several loaders of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Conference , . . I-,ess- ing Ro.senwalil, hoail of (he Coun
_cllfor .ludaism. lhe organization wHiiih Is fighting iiolltlcul ;^ion ism, fluis nol re-elected to the Board df Direclors of lhe Amer ican .lewish Commiltee al its ro cent annual conference • . . Tho New Zionist Organizalion, pnpii larly known as the Kevisionists. agrees wilh Judge I'roskauor's formula for an international trusteeship for Palestine. . . LITERARY NEWS ... ,|«B First prize in a unique liter-
; ary„COMest ,jvas recehtlj'taii^a'ra- ed "to a poem, entitled "Psalm" and  describing the  tragedy of
^e Warsaw ghetto : . . The com-
ffipetltlon was sponsored by a Polish underground magazine, and the entries were submitted and the prizes distributed through the underground organi zation that operates under the noses of the Goslapo . . . F^ranz Werfel is still under the weather, but ho musl bo mightily cheered by the reception his braincliil dren are getting, those days . . . His "Song of llernadotlo" is go¬ ing strong in its' movie version, and word from Hoston is lo the effect that Iho Theatre Guild presentation of his comedy "Jacdl)()wsky and the Colonel", on a pre-Hrouihvay run in the liean City, is bound to be a sure fire hit . . . Playirig-^the role of the Jewish refugee .lacobowsky, incidenlaliy, is refugee O.scar Kariwois, w-ho uni'' recently was featured in "Rosalinda", the late Max Relnhardt production to grace Hroatlway . . . Kariwois, you may rernemhef. is the stop son of the late noveli.st Jakob Wasserman.
FRO.M THK (;IWI'EVI,NK . . . ^ Hitler, they're saying is busy stuflying Spanish . . . Coui>lod with this rumor is one that a lol of Nazi money hus found refuge in a St)uth Aiaori(;an country, tho impllcalion lioing that lhe Nazi bigwig owners of this cash ex poet eventually lo find ditto there . . . Spanish teachers, in other words, aro doing well in Hltlorland ihesi days . . . And while we're at il we may as well l>ass on the gag aired liy a radio reporter llio oilier day : . . It's a riddle, supposedly current in (leriiumy now: "What's the dif¬ ference between an optimist and a pessimist'*" . The answer is: An opUmist is a tjerman who's taking Knglish lessons — a pessi¬ mist is c;ne who's learning Rus¬ sian . . .
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Devoted lo Amerloui and Jewltb IdaaJt
Federation Group Approves Council For Jewish Defense
I'lTTSllUllGH, UPS)—Annlh er attempt to coordinate the activiti(*s of national .Jewish or ganlziitions engaged in defense against anti-Semitism was launched here by the General Assembly of the Council of .Iew¬ ish I'^'derations and Welfare Funds, which unanimously ap prove(l a resolution calling for the formation of a National Community Relations Advisory Council to formulate a policy in the area of civic protection. The decision was endorsed by Joseph M. Proskauer, pre.sident df the Amcrtcan .Iewish Committee: Morris Margulies, administrative secretary of the American .Jew¬ ish Congre.s.S; Henry Monsky. president of the R'nai B'rith, and Isiah Minkoff, vicechairman of tho Jewish  Labor Commitlee.
The Advisory HoartI will con .sist of representatives of the leading national civlc-proleclivc agencies and the fourteen com¬ munities which have organized civic protective agencies of their own and are meirilters of Ihe Community Relations Confer¬ ence. Provision is also made to include other communilios and agencies inloresled in the prob lem.
A CommiUee was sot up con- sisling of Phflmore J. Habcr of Cleveland, Bernard P. Kopkind of New Haven, Maurice B. Flagan o£ -JRhiiadelpWaj, -Bd^r J, K,auf-
mahn- 6r Plt^tsButgH; siiiney: SoV-- lander of fialtlmore, and David M. Watchhiaker of > Boston. A meeting of the Advisory Hoard will be held .sometime in March. i'ottitcll Officers Sidney Ilollan'der was re elect ed for the sixth lime, as prosi- (lont of lhe Council of .Iewish Fetieralions and Welfare Funds. .Namerl a.s Vice Presitients were: William Rosenwald of Green wich, t.'onn.; lOdwin J. .Schanfar¬ ber of Columhus. (}hio, and Da vid M. Watchmaker of HosUm. Klias Mayor of Chicago was chos on secretary and Ira jvi. Younkor of Now York, treasurer.
Father - Son Night To Feature Coach Brovn Wednesday
Temple. Israel Hrotherhood Is happy id announce that il has se¬ cured Paul Brown, Ohio State Universily Football Coach, Groat Lakes vs. Ohio Slate football game myvies. Nick liarack, Co¬ lumbus recreation tlirector antl star athletes to headline the 'Father and Son Night' program next \\'eiinesilay evening, l''ob. Kith, al the iiryden Roatl Tem pie. Slmtui Lazarus will bo Itiastmasier for tbis event whicli is untlor the chairmanship of Hen Ratnor.
Accortiing it) Leonard Stern, Hroihorhooil president, the af fair will hegin promptly ;il 7 o'clock and close at !1 P. M.. mak ing it possible for every bi.y to he home liy Il::i0. It is open to sons, nepht^ws antl friend.s <if memiiers of the liroihei'hood There will he prizes and ro freshments.
DISCOVKKH NKW KVK Cl'KI'; MOHCOW UPS) — Ur. Soma Schlugleit was repoi'ted here as having tilscovered a sensaiional new cure for war eye wounds. Her cure proveti successful in lhe ca.se, of a Retl Army soltlier to whom sho restoretl sight af¬ ter all doctors had dispaired helping him.
Dr. Abramson On Town Meeting Program
Pr. H. W. Ahramson. well known local physician, will bo one of Ihe prlni;jpal speakers on Ihe i|uosllon, "Can The Unlleil Slates and Russia Agree'"—at Columbus Town Moeyng this Saturday ( totlay) at H:l.''> f. M.. In the Columbus Galiory of I'"'lnc Arls. Pesifles heing aclive in many civic entorpri.ses, Dr. Ab ramsoii is al.so a faculty membiM' at Otterheln Collogo and a mem¬ ber of lhe American .Soviel Frienilship Association.
Appearing on fhe platform with him'will bo Dr. Foster Rhea Dulles. Professor of Ilistory'al Ohio State l.'nivorsity. former worltl traveler anci news corres¬ pondent in  China and  France.
Tho program will he liroad ca.st from l( to 10 o'clock ovor WCOL, with Or H. Gortlon Hull fish of Obiti Stale University as Guest .Moderator. Reatlers of lhe Chronicle are urgeti lo atlent! this ili.scussion of a tjuestion wiiich is of extreme importance to  future world slahilily
RKI) CROSH S.-\HI1.\TH PO OHHKRVKI) THKOl'(;HOl'l THK LAND
W.-\SHIN(;T0N (.IPS) — The week end of I'Y'bruary 25 20 will be observed as Retl Cfoss Saii- halh in synagogues anti temples throughout the counly, it was announced here by the American r.RcdKGicos%*ftI!hiE(r,,i?,tl}eLBecond successive yeSir of its dbsen/ance,' and It is being observed the same week-end in Protestant and Catholic churches. Calls to the synagogues   and   temples   were
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL OUTLINES 1944 PROGRAM FOR IMMEDIATE RESCUE OF JEWS
Negroes Invite Jews To Study Race Problems
The Anniifi.l Inierraiial li.-iv which has hccome an insliniiiou al Ihe local lU-iliany Presbyicr Ian Church, will confine iisi'lf lo the sillily of tho American .lew¬ ish prolilem at a special meeling this Sunday. F0I1. i:), at fi P. M., it was announced this week.
The rise of anil Semilism ' in the Cnited States and the worltl Jewish crisis has prompt etl Rev. Wm. H. iliilloway, the pastor, to invite Itical .Synagogues and low¬ i.sh citizens to join in this inter raf,',ial da.v observance.
"Our aim is to actiuaint llie Negroes with the situation con¬ fronting olher minorily groups in our country and to fortify Ihem against racial antl religious bigotry which has begun to show itself in nian,\' sections of the nalion". Rov. Ilolloway saltl. Sig I.. Wci.sskorz anil .-Mtonicy l''rank Shearer will lie among the slioakers, with a question and answer jieriod following.
Tho Chronicle hopes that as many of our .letvl.sh people as possible will attenti this program Suntiay evening, (1 P. M., at tho ¦l^ethany Presbyterian Church E. Spring Street at Garfield.Ave,
PITTHRl'KGH (,11'Sl — A iwelve Point program for the im- modiale rescue tif .lews in Kuro¬ pean lands through relief and re- 'haliifltation overseas, immigra¬ tion and setllomonl in Palestine and aid lo refugees fintiing a haven in lhe i;nllt?d Stales was outlineil at a special.conference of IOO Jewish Ipatlers from all .sections of Ihe country who as¬ sembled al the .William Penn Hotel to hear I'he first official presentation nf the plans for the nationwide campaign of lhe Uni, toil Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and Palestine to raise I6;)2,00(I,(X)() in Ul-14. The conference was heltl in conl- junction with the General Assem¬ bly tif the Council of .Iewish I''eiieralifins and Welfare Funds.
issued "by" Dr. Israiel'Goidsl'elri, president of the Synagogue Coun¬ cil of America and Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Retl Cro.ss.
NOTED JEWISH LEADER OF GREAT BRITAIN TO ADDRESS JOINT MEETING NEXT TUESDAY
The Columhu.s .Irwish fum munity will havo n rare trcut lu'xt 'I'ut'sday evoning. I-Vb ITiih. when Or. Maurice L. Forl/.w "i^^, chairman of tlic Hriti.sh Hwtion of the Woriti Juwisli t¦unHI¦us^. ad^lres.st'S a joint mct'dnK of tlio (j)!imihus Zionist Organization and /inn liodgi'. li'nai H'ruh II is lo he held iu thf [iroad Sirt'cl Tempk' at H o'dtx-k and ample KcaUng' arran^oment.s art- heiti;? made to aoeonunodate an over flow crowd, according to l*'red Yenkin, Zionisi i'resident. and Kd Schlezinger, H'nai H'ritii head.
Dr. Porlzweig recently arrived In the United Htates at the in vUation of the American .lewisli Congress. He brought wilh him the first declaration sinci' the Dullireak of the war froni Ihe Hritish Covenunfnl witli re sped to its altilU(Je loward fu ture rights for ./ews at tiie end of the vvar This is Kabhi Herlz- weiij;'s si^'cond visit to the Ini'oii Slat.es. His firsl visit lo this coui^lry took place in .htnuarv of liKJi);
Since tho advent of Hillerism, Or. I'erlzvveip has- given nun !i time to lhe work of reliof anil reconstrucllon and is a member of the Kxeculive Commitlee of Lhe Ctnineil for Cermim Jewry. Ue is ftjrty two years old ami was e<iucated at Cniversity ("ol Jege, t-omfun, and at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating from the Universily College with honors In History and Poli tical Science, and from Christ's College with honors in Oriental Languages. He studied Habbin les witll Dr. Israel Ahraiianis.
Dr. .M. L. I'lrl/.wfig
Dr i'l'rlzweig entered liie iMinistry Ui \iVl\ ar.d iiecanie a Minister of the Liberal lewish Synagogue   of   London ll   is
some measure of Ihe spii-iiual influence he has been able to exerci.se iJial leading persona,'! ties so different as Israel Zang will ;o;d tile first Lord ({eading Umugh not members of his Con gregation. left insiructions ihat he was to jierform for lhem bhc last .lewish rites. He converted Ihe preseni Lord Mek'heK and his sister, the Marchioness of lieatting, t!t Judaism and receiv ed them into the community in a liltle suburban synagogue. His influence has stemmed the tide of anti Zionist sentiment among Jewish religious modernists, 'di\(.\ the I'rayer Hook vvhich he cum
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S<'HANFAK»KK  HONORK!)
Fklwin ,(. Kchiinfju-hrr. local Irader. was ('l('<"1r(l a vice prcM- Idcnl of Ihc Council of Jovisli FciicraMons and \V c^| f Jl r v "FiiikJ.s ji( INtd^lmrgM. where the council licId its general a^- st-nitily.  C
The program proposes:
(•¦ L1 Kmigration of chi Idren and adult cefugees who reach Spain and Portugal and olhei's who can be transported , from ¦the. Bstlkang, ,lM3ny.jr tKp^n i\tt^ to be yifoiie^t'ix>''^i\^Mii\06^ ers to the Western H^mi^pEerel ("2.) Shipment of food and medicines for Polish fefxige^s in Soviet Russia. In this opera¬ tion will be included t/ie ship- monf of r),(K)0 food packages monthly from Ihe Middle FJast to refugees in Asiatic lUissia.
('¦:!) InfTcasf.'d aid to refugees in Allied and neutral countrie.s, cs|)ecially Switzerland where 1^.- Pl)0 rvhifiws ;jre being iiU\)\>(n'\ei\. Also direct aid to Jews in occu- pied ai'cas dirough government- •¦approN'ed channels and internii- tional relief groups inn! indinm aid through the promise of re¬ payment of loans made locally for !-elief /mrposes.
r'l.i Coniliiiied a>sisi;ince for integration of IL'o.Mdd immigrants in  I .alin  American countries
(¦¦.')( Immigration into Pales tine. Cnder present Covernmenl provisions an additional :m,0()() rvh)iX(^v-^ ^¦i.^l^ enter IIjc Jevvt.sh Homeland in the coming months,
¦¦(i. 1 Actjuisition of new land areas in I'alestine to provide op¬ portunities for absorption in rural communities for the new- cfimers,
("7.1 The establishmeiU of new agricultural settlements in I'al¬ estine; the building of homos. barns and .schools and the pur¬ chase of farm implements and livestock.
(¦¦>?.» The development of new induslrlal enterprises in Pales tine to expand ils economy so that it may l)e al)ie to proviiie jobs for greater numbers who will seek a home there
{"9.) To help newconu'rs aci just to the f^oc'Ui] and cultural life of the Cnited States.
("10.) To make trained person¬ nel available for the war effort through retraining, employment, placement of physicians and members of other profevsnions.
CI.) To give economic and olher assistance to refugee.s who continu*; to arrive in th^ Cnited Stales  in  the midst of war,  aa
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