Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1945-02-02

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Sf\V.^ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community \jf^
Vol. 23, No. fl
Entered as 3econd.Clau Matter, .   Postofflce   Columbufl,, Ohio.
COIiUMBUS, omo, KRIDAY, FEBRU4BV 2, 194.?
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   Prom   Bvorywhere By Phineas J. Biron
EDITORIALETTE '. . .
fe Statistics proving tliat antl- Semltlc charges are lies cut frorn the whole cloth proved cf no avail against the Hitlerite propaganda in'Germany . . . Yet Justice Frank Murphy, chair¬ man of the National Committee against the Persecution of Jews, In a recent article calls for the circulation of "sober hate- quenching facts in every Ameri¬ can home, farm, factory, union shop and school, in the press and on the air" . . . But defen¬ sive arguments merely produce argumentation . . . What Is need¬ ed Is an offensive against the anti-Semitic undermlriers of de¬ mocracy . . .
YOU 8H0.UI.D KNOW . . . fe One of America's best- known labor leaders will soon be proceeding to England to commit British labor to an ag¬ gressive policy against the growth bf anti-Semitism ... A court-martial of a naval medical officer will make the headlines In the n^ar future ... It will open up a number of suppressed cases of antl-Semltlsiji In naval and civilian medical circles . . . Charles Van Devander and Wil¬ liam 0. Player, Jr., whose "Washington Memo" is read in many cities, report that inside the lobby of the CWypool Hotel, the hostelry that houses the committee headquarters of the Indiana Republican Party, a liquor store flaunts the follow¬ ing red, white and blue sign: "This establishment is 100 per cent American — Buy American — Talk American — Act Ameri¬ can" ....
ZIONIST NEWS . . . f© Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smlth, touring Jewish refugee camps in Italy, promises these home¬ less people refuge in practically ¦any country — except Palestine . . . Vlccount Gort and Sir Ed¬ ward Grigg, two gentlerrien who advocate the maintenance of the White Paper, recently lunched with Dr. Weizmann In his Re- hovoth home . . . Did they dis¬ cuss the limitation of Jewish Immigration into Palestine to 1500 a month? . . . This limita¬ tion means that the White Pa¬ per, far from being suspended for the duration, la very, much In force . . . Rabbl A. Lelyvelt and the Rev. Richard Evans are touring California as an inter- falth pro-Zionist speaking team. Rabbl Abba H. Silver's support¬ ers in New York have been try¬ ing in vain to open an office for Zionist action . . . There's abso-' lutely no office space to be got¬ ten . .
THIS AND THAT . . . |B<1 Some years before the war Paul Claudel was the French Ambassador to Washington One of France's most disting¬ uished Catholic laymen, he wrote vigorous essays against antl-Semltlsm . . . But during the Nazi occupation of Paris his play "Soulier de Satin" (The Satin Slipper) was the rage of the theatrical season, with Ges¬ tapo dignitaries filling the loges nightly . . . How come? ... Or¬ son' Welles, in his brand-new syndicated column "Orson Well¬ es' Almanac", tells us that U was Cecil B. DeMUle, the Holly¬ wood director, who Invented the Fascist salute ... In his sUent film "The Eternal City" he In¬ troduced that ^tf-armed ges¬ ture to Caesar ... The House Mission Council of Noi?th Amer- (Continued on Pass 8)
Dr. C. H. Voss Will Address Meeting Thursday Evening
Dr. Carl Hermann Voss. lect-, urer, traveler, writer and mlnLs- ter, will address the annual joint meeting of the Junior, Senior, and B. and P. Hadassah, and the Zionist Organization at the Broad Street Temple next Thursday evening, March Sth, at 8 o'clock, it was announced this week.
Dr. Voss has traveled widely, both in this country and abroad, and is a careful student of Amer¬ ican life and international prob¬ lems. He has the faculty to simplify the most complex prob¬ lems and interpret them with clarity.
In 1943, Dr. Voss left the Smlthfieid Congregational Church in Pittsburgh to become Extension Secretary of the Church Peace Union and the World Alliance of International Friendship Through the Church¬ es, as WeU as Executive Secre¬ tary of the Christian Council on Palestine.
Cooperating to make the eve¬ ning of March Sth, an import¬ ant educational and social event are Mrs. Samuel Horowitz, presi¬ dent of Senior Hadassah, Mrs. Moe Hirsch, Senior Program Chalrmai}, Miss Helen Nutis, Junior Hadassah President, Miss Lydia Gruber, Junior program chairman. Miss Rose Javis, B. and P. President, and Mr. Fred Yenkin, President of the Zionist organization.
Council, B'nai B'rith Women,  Hadassah To Meet Tuesday
Three local women's organi¬ zations. The Columbus Chapter of Hadas.sah, The Columbus Section, National Council of Jewish Women, and the B'nai B'rith Auxiliary, will holdj a joint meeting, and tea on Tues¬ day afipjnoon, Feb. 6, at 2 P. M., at the Bryden Road Temple.
Speaker of the afternoon will be First Lieutenant Ernest F. Slesslnger, Plxyslcal Recondit¬ ioning Officer at Fletcher Gen¬ eral Hospital. His subject will be "Reconditioning The Return¬ ing Veteran". The talk will not be Ipchhical, but will be ex¬ tremely interesting and vividly descriptive. He will tell what the army Is doing and whal>we must do to help many of the patients, of whom a goodly number are from Columbus.
Lt. Slesslnger's training and experience have fitted him for the work the army has specified for him. He is a Physical Edu¬ cation major graduate of Ober- lin College. He was director of Physical Education at State Teachers'' College, Pennsylvania, from 192!) to 1B35. At the time he entered service, he was head of the Department of Physical Education at a high school in Pittsburgh.
The opening prayer will be given by Mrs. Charles J. Freund. Greetings are to be extended by the presidents of the, three par¬ ticipating organizations, lirs Mark Felnknopf, Council; Mrs I. M. Harris, B'nai B'rith; Mrs, Samuel Horowitz, Hadassah.
Members of the three groups will be hostesses at the tea fol¬ lowing the talk.
The Council is appealing for any junk jewelry, no mattei' how broken, to be forwarded to various hospitals where our wounded are being cared for. Those planning to attend Tues¬ day's Joint ineetlng are asked to bring their scrap jewelry with them.
HE WILL ADDRESS JOINT MEETING OF B'NAI BRITH AND   ZIONISTS    TUESDAY
DR. JOHN SLAWSON REPORTS INCREASE IN RACIAL TENSION IN THE UNITED STATES
Death Of A. J. Kobacker Is Shock To Entire Community
Chairnian      of     the     Kobnclter
Stores,   Inc.,   Was  Briovcd
All    Through    Tho
Middle West
In his beautiful eulogy on the life and achievements of Alfred .1. Kobacker. age 58, who passed away In New York Monday night. Rabbl Samuel M. Gup of Temple   Israel,    reviewed    the
Ezra Z- Shapiro
Ezra Z. Shapiro, Cleveland, national executive of the ZOA will be the principal .speaker at the annual Joint meeting of Zlon Lodge, B'nai B rith, and the Co lumbus Zio;ilst District next Tuesdar-at, the East Broad St Temple, at 8 P. M.
An added feature will be the appearance of 15 Ohio State University students, members of the Hillel Foundation, chap ter of Avukah, presenting Pal estinlan folk songs and dances
Shapiro is now a member of the World Zionist Actions Com mlttee. 'the National Executive of the Z. O, A. ami the National Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress He Is vice president of the QJeveiand Jewi.sh, Community Council and has been recogniz¬ ed nationally by the Z. O. A., for more than ten years.
Tho meeting will be under the Joint direction of Allan Tarshish, president of B'nai B'rith, and Fred Yenkin, president of the Columbus Zionist District. Open discussion will follow the pre¬ sentation by Shapiro.
Guests are invited and both Zionists and non-Zionists will be welcomed.
Members are asked to bring used playing cards to be turned over to the men of the Merchant Marine and U. S. O.
ROSENMAN  ON   MISSION FOR PRES. ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JPS)— Judge Samuel Rosenman, special advisor to President Roosevelt, is enroute- to Europe to survey economic conditions and the flow of civilian goocjs, Presiden¬ tial Secretary Stephen Early dis¬ closed here. Judge Rosenman will visit England, France, Bel¬ gium and the Netherlands as a pergonal representative of the President with the rank of min¬ ister.
Alfred
Kobacker
WEISBEmC IN ACTION
Staff Sgt. Herman M. Weis¬ berg, of 731 Buien Ave., a C-47 combat radio operator, was one of many troop carrier crew members selected to fly food and anununltlon to the Amer¬ ican 1st Army units trapped In the Bastogne, Belgium area.
He wears the Air Medal ?uid Oak Leaf Cluster for his part In the airborne operations over the Cherbourg peninsula and Ger^ man-occupied Holland.
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career of one of Columbus' most beloved merchants and civic leaders who.came to this coun¬ try as a boy of \li from Neu¬ stadt, Lithuania and by dint of hard labor and the application uf sound business prirjciples grew to be recognized as one of the outstandi'ng successes in the Middle West. Among other things Rabbi Gup said:
"With Alfred Kobacker cltizen- siilp was a sacred trust. He loved democratic America, its soil and soui. Whenever an op¬ portunity presented itself, he gave of his gifts and talents gen¬ erously toward the advance¬ ment of American principles and ideals. With conviction in the essential unity pf all citi¬ zens, he spent himself freely in upbuilding the civic and cultural life of our community.
"Our friend bore his. Jewish¬ ness as a badge of honor. Juda¬ ism was precious to him. Be¬ cause his mind was richly stor¬ ed with Jewish knowledge and understanding, he was devoted to the Temple and' the priceless qualities of the human spirit which it presents."
it is interesting to note that the Kobackers arrived in Mount Pleasant, Pa., In 1901 where they established a department store together with their late lamented father, Hirsch Koback¬ er whom they loved and respect¬ ed in the true spirit of the He¬ braic admonition, "Honor thy father and thy mother".
In 1919 the two brothers came to Columbus and bought The Boston Store, first In a group of Kobacker organizations, which now Include the two In Colum¬ bus and nine other stores In Ohio and New York state. Other stores are the Tledtke and Fair stores and Paul's and AMn's (Continued on Page 8)
NEW YORK .(WNS)—There has been an increase In all forms of racial tension in the United States, it was repo.rted here by Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president of the American Jewish Committee, at the open¬ ing session ot a three-day plen¬ ary meeting of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, .held d^irlng the week¬ end.
Ascribing this Increase to the economic and social dislocations of a wartime economy. Dr. Slaw- .son said that there has Ireen an increase in anti-Negroism and anti-Catholicism as well as anti- Semitism. Fear of more strlng- e n t government prosecution during wartime has, however, resulted in a decrease in the number of active anti-Semitic organizations and professional anti-Semites. He warned that the in.security and frustrations d# large masses of people that may develop in the post-war period is unquestionably a threat to be guarded against.
I-'urther progress in achieving coordination of activities and common planning by the nation¬ al Jewish defense agencies and the eighteen local community relations groups was insured by a program of organization adopted unanimously by the Na¬ tional Community, Relations Ad; visory Council at the three-day gathering. Tiie program was urged by David Sher, NCRAC ciiairman, who was re-elected with the entire group of officers wlio have guided tlie organiza¬ tion since its Inception a year ago. The plan of organization adopted includes the following specific  recommendations:
1. The creation of standing committees of the NCRAC in such fields as mass approach, class approach, interfaith co¬ operation, overt anti-Semitism, economic discrimination and other fields that come within the scope of the civic protective ag¬ encies. The purpose of these standing committees in various fields of civic protective action will be the subject the prograntt and policies of the national ageiv cles and the local community relations groups to examination, criticism and-suggestion to the end that uniform policies and practices will emerge to guide all activities' in this important area of work.
2. The IHnctions of the Co¬ ordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations dealing with Em¬ ployment Discrimination in-War Industries will be "transferred to the NCRAC and a permanent committee of the NCRAC, with a professional staff member, be established for formulation of policy in the field' of employ- m e n t discrimination". The resolution formally accomplish¬ ing the transfer of the functions of the Coordinating Committee further declares that "the imple¬ mentation of the activities In this field are to'be carried into action by one or more of .the agency members under the di¬ rection and supervision of the NCRAC, or by the NCRAC it-j self as the committee shall from time to time determine",
Isaiah Mlnkoff, executive di¬ rector of the NCRAC, 'Will be¬ come vice-chairman of the or- ganlz£(tlon ajid serve as a pyofes- sionsil assistant to Mr. Sher. An executive dlrec0r will be en¬ gaged to administer the flew program. The budget of the (Continued on Page 8)