Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1945-09-28

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Vol. 23. No. 39      Entered aa Second-Claas Matter, * Postofflce   Columbus,. Ohio.
COIiUMBtJS, OHIO, PRIDAY, SETPTEMBSIR 28, 1945
D«vot»d  to  Ani«rlcan «nd   Jawlih   tdaall
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits  From   Bverywhere By Phineas J. Biron
ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT   ..
SsThe'Hollywood Council for Civic Unity has a gwell blue print of action, .We hope It will not countenance appeasment and expose antl-SemltIsm, now rampant In Hollywood The Council would do well to put a stop—If possible—to the reg¬ ular meetings addressed by G. Allison Phelps and Lowell.. Both are enthusiastic followers of Gerald L. K. Smith That proposed debate between Sena¬ tor Bilbo, and James Waterman Wise on "Do4s America Want Racial Equality" 's a ridiculous Idea.,, It Is like Invinng an In¬ mate of the Zoo to debate, the Einstein theory of relativity . Victor Riesel reports that aging, greying Father Coughlin is eager to broadcast . again and awaits the results of a rifew pe¬ tition drive, directed by Ger¬ ald U- K. Smith Why did the New York press Ignore the van¬ dalism committed In the store of Sidney Ross Sid's store windows and door were smear¬ ed with the Star of David and anti-Semitic slogans.,"A World Charter for Human Rights" is the name of a new pamphlet issued by the American Jewish Committee. .-The booklet hails the Inclusion of human rights provisions In the charter of thfi new World Organization Is a great achievement,.. ABOUT PERSONS ^Eddle Sullivan reminds the BUboltes that Jewish heroes won 31 D. S. G's and thousands df other U. S. decorations. .We also lost six Jewish Chaplains Jascha Helfptz cancelled more thari a hundred thousand dol lars worth of concerts to en tertaln G. I.'S in France and Germany... Artur Rubinstein, the pianist asked and got $85,000 for recording the piano music In the forthcoming film "Concerto"... William Paley ¦President of Columbia Broad casting Is back from Europe where he performed one of the most successful war jobs as head of the Psycholigical War¬ fare Division.. Now, reliable Information reaches us that former Governor Lehman will be drafted to run tor the Sen¬ ate In 1946..
YOU SHOUID KNOW... (^Liberal Judaism scored a real scoop when It published In Its current Issue the article about Eddie Jacobson's friend¬ ship with President Truman... The article gives a very hu¬ man portrait of-the President Truman was terribly pleased and wrote accordingly to Edi¬ tor Rittenberg.. .Henry Mor- genthau's book on how to cure Germany of Nazism will be published next month and Is enjoying a terrific advance sale .Judge Sam Roaeman may—after all—stay In Wash¬ ington as Truman's No. 1 ad¬ viser on foreign relief, all loans, and credit to foreign govern¬ ments Walter Wlnchell wants to know why an enterprising publisher does not bring out Congressman Voorhls' exposes on Nazi industrialists .11 would sell more than tinder Cover, Walter believes. ..Your favorite Hollywood columnist, Sidney Skolsky will become a movie producer for polumbla pictures..,
HAVB YOU HEARD... ISgIs It true that a certain high State    Department   official    Is (Continued on Page 8)
B'nai B'rith To Vote on $15,000 Gift to Center
An Important session termed the "$15,000 Meeting" of B'nai B'rith will be held at the Broad St, Temple, 8 P, M. next Tues¬ day.
A special order of business win be the discussion of par¬ ticipation In a new Jewish Com¬ munity Center by the local B'nai B'rith lodge. All members will be called upon to vote on an offer of $15,000 to be con¬ tributed by the lodge from its sinking fund to the proposed building fund for a new Center building.
Another feature of the meeting will be a flrstJiand repjrt by Allan Tarshl.sh, pres¬ ident, of a meeting of the new Nationalist Party held at Cell- na, Ohio, last Sunday. Speak¬ ers at the meeting Included Gerald K. Smith, George Voss, Karl   Mote,  and  George   Klster.
Other important Issues In¬ clude the' change of meeting dates from the first and third Tuesday.=5 to the second and fourth Mond.nys. The member¬ ship drive for the Franklin D. Roosevelt class, dedicated to the memory of our late president, will be outlined by Joseph Lev¬ lson, chairman.
ITEADS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE FOB ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
Ben   Grossman
With Palestine continuing to play the major role In the sal¬ vation of the Jewish people In Europe, and realizing that there is no other solution for the plight of over a million men, women and children than the Holy Land, a committee this week, headed by Ben Gross¬ man, has launched a member¬ ship campaign to enroll hund¬ reds, still unaffiliated. In the Zionist Organization of Ameri¬ ca. Other members of his com¬ mittee are Morris Lessure, Dav¬ id Galser and Dr. Harry Topo¬ losky.
During the coming weeks solicitors will call on prospects to Join the greatest humanitar¬ ian effort of saving the rem¬ nant of European Jewry—to help pave the way to freedom in the Jewish homeland. More details of the drive will be giv¬ en In next week's issue of the Chronicle.
Show your appreciation to the Chronicle's 24 years of loyal and devoted ser¬ vice to ColamboB Jewiah Community by paying yonr snbscrlpttoa now—43.00 for the ](ear.
WORLD TRAVELER AND LECTURBK TO ADDRESS COUNCIL WOMEN
Miss  Mary  A.   DIngiiian
"There is such danger of re¬ laxing of effort. The backwash of war reveals the worst ele¬ ments In human nature," says Miss Mary A. DIngman who is an American Interpreter., and student df international affairs, whose work on social and eco¬ nomic questions has taken her all over the world. She speaks authoriatlvely on very many European countries, as well as the Near East, Far East, India and South America since her travels have taken her to forty- six countries in the various con¬ tinents of the world.    .
Miiss DIngman began her In¬ ternational work in 1917 when she was sent to Europe by the National Board of the YWCA. For her work among the wo¬ men of France, she was twice decorated by the French gov¬ ernment. As honorary presidefit of the Peace and Disarmament Committee of the Woman's In¬ ternational Organizations o f Geneva, Switzerland and Its president from its formation in 1931 to 1939, Miss DIngman is well acquainted with the prob¬ lems of women all over the world. She has worked with the League of Nations In Investi¬ gating the white slave traffic, the opium traffic and the eco¬ nomic status of women.
Council of Jewish Women considers Itself Indeed fortunate to have as Its opening guest speaker, ' a woman consecrat, ely devoted to the cause of un¬ iversal peace and to a place for universal womanhood In the political and economic struct¬ ure of the world. So Important is this speaker and so vital her message, that Council urges all members and their friends le^sattend this meeting which is to l)e a membership tea and reception to be held In the ves¬ try of the Bryden Road Tem¬ ple next Tuesday, October 2, at 2 P. M. The public is wel¬ come. Mrs. Robert Blashek is president of the Columbus sec¬ tion.
B'nai B'rith Hillel Alumni Meeting Sunday at 8 P. M.
This Sunday, Sept. 30, at 8 P. M., the first fall meeting of the Columbus IJlUel Alumni Organization will take place at the Hillel Foundation, 48-16th Ave. All Ohio State University HUlel Alumni, aa well as Alum¬ ni of other Hillels throughout the country, are welcome.
Many people have requested the formation of such a group
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Refugee Board Recommends Official
U. S. Action On Opening Palestine To Jews
WASHINGTON (WNS)—Of¬ ficial U. S. action "to effect the reopening of Palestine", to Jew¬ ish immigration was recom¬ mended by William O'Dwyer in hds final report as executive director of the now defunct War  Refugee  Board,
The factually written seven¬ ty-four page report, which was submitted to the Secretaries of State, Treasury and War on September 15, covers the high spots ot the board's part In ef¬ fecting rescues of Jewish refu¬ gees.
Declaring that "several mil¬ lion persons, including one mil¬ lion Jews who were the special subjects of the Nazi persecu¬ tion carhpaign, are still -alive In Europe," the report recommend¬ ed that the U. S. take aggres¬ sive action at once for a Uni¬ ted National solution of the "In¬ ternational problem" of finding homes for the non-repatriable displaced  persons.
General O'Dwyer considered the problem of the stateless Jews one of the most pressing ones, and, hence, recommended that "Immediate action be tak¬ en for this group," the majori¬ ty o^ which "desires to start life anew In Palestine, the only country which is ready and willing today to receive Jews In large numbers. "He pointed out that in view of the fact that the admission of Jews to Palestine is presently restrict¬ ed by the British White Paper, the U. S. Government should take official action to secure the opening of Palestine "for the immigration' of these peo¬ ple."
The rescue work was made possible through the contribut¬ ion of some $20,000,000 by pri¬ vate organizations, mostly Jew¬ ish, and by $2,500,000 in Govern¬ ment funds, the latter mostly for food that was distributed to refugees in German concen¬ tration camps by the Interna¬ tional Red Cross. The Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee alone con¬ tributed $15,000,000. More than $1,000,000 was contributed by the Vaad Haatzalah Emergency Committee. Among the other Jewish organizations which large contributions were: The American Jewish Committee, the Zionist Organization of America, the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish Labor Committee, the National Refu¬ gee Service, the Hias and the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish  People. ^
The report stressed that rex- cue operations were made pos¬ sible by a ruling of the State and Treasury Departments per¬ mitting private agencies to transfer funds from the U.S. to their representatives abroad. It
simultaneously discloses that when Great Britain objected to that policy on the ground that it would enable the foe to se¬ cure foreign exchange, the Treasury Department took the position that "the saving ot lives far outweighed any pos¬ sible danger Involved In per¬ mitting the enemy to acquire relatively Insubstantial quani- tles  of  foreign  exchange.
In what was evidently in¬ tended as critlclsni of the U. S, Embassy in Madrid, the report discloses that our officials in Spain held out for some time against having an agent of the board stationed in that country, and that by the time U. S. Em- basaey was persuaded to press the Spanish government for permission to admit the board representatives, "the war had reached such- a stage that large- scale rescues from Fiance were impractical  or  Impossible,"
Switzerland was "the most imiTOrt.Tnt center" of the board's operations. More than $17,000,- 000 were sent there for rescue purposes. In France more than sj.OOO Jewish orphans were kept, alive with funds transmitted through   Switzerland.
Sweden saved about 20,000 Jews in Hungary by giving them "protective passports." Through Turkish cooperation in the rescue program, more than 7,000 refugees were saved. Though the U. S. was at war with Rumania 48,000 Jews of the 150,000 who were deported from Bessarabia and Bucovina to Transnistria were removed from Transnitria, ultimately to Palestina
The report covers In detail the major programs of rescue, relief, physchologlcal warfare and the establishment of tem¬ porary havens of refuge. In¬ cluding that at Oswego, New York, and recommends that the Oswego refugees be permitted to  remain  in the  country.
Among its tributes to Indi¬ viduals, the report singles out Il-a Hirschmann, who served as special WRB representative in Turkey. Mr. Hirschman, the report notes, went to Ankara early In January, 1944, "for the sole purpose of investigating the possibilities of rendering aid to Nazi victims in the Bal¬ kans. With the wholeharted co¬ operation and assistance of United States Ambassador Lau¬ rence A. Stelnhardt, Mr. Hirsch¬ mann rendered outstanding and unusually successful service to the board."
The War Refugee Board was established by the late Presi¬ dent Roosevelt on January 22, 1944, to aid in the rescue of Hitler  victims  in  Europe.
TEMPLE BROTHERHOOD STAG SET POR OCT, Oth
Elaborate plans are being made for the forthcoming lap- nual stag dinner of the Bry¬ den Road Temple Brotherhood which Is to take place on Tues¬ day, October 9th, 6:30 P. M. at the Columbus Riding Club, East Main and Fairway Blvd.
Al Getchell, Citizen cartoon¬ ist, wilt headline the evening's program which is to be followed by ,the usual games and entert¬ ainment. Sig Welsskerz Is gen¬ eral chairman and Al Harris will be In charge of the stag affair.
There will be no charge for paid-up members, with a nom¬ inal fee for guests.
Broad St. Temple To Install Officers Next Thursday
The Simchas Torah dinner, sponsored annually by the T. I. Sisterhood, . will be held this Thursday evening, October 4th, at 6:30 P. M. In the social hall of the Broad  St,  Temple.
Following the dinner. Rabbi Hyman Chanover will install the newly elected officers of the congregation. Officers to be installed are; President, Mr. Louis P. Schlezinger, 1st Vice Pres. Dr. Harry Topoloaky, 2nd Vice Pres. Mr. J. K. Bornatein, (Continued on Page 4)