Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-08-06

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Volume XVII—No. 189
COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 6, 1937
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Partition particulars
.Sonic lirhish. politicians arc seri¬ ously pushing a:scheme to settle thc British war debt to the'United States by giving Uncle, Sam Palestine in payriient of. half, the debt...That Comite d'Ententc to set up interna¬ tional control of Jewish philanthropy took defiiiite f^nn at a meeting in thc jDC's Paris olTice:on July 21...It is said that Nathan Katz,. new J.DC European representative, has been charged with chief responsibility for cITcctuating the scheme...Back of Vi.scqunt Samuel's scheme to limit thc Jewish populatioii of Palestine to 'lO^of the Arab population i.s the skilfiRil diplomacy of the NoivZion- ists...Responsible spokesmen for the Jewish Agency, Executive regard the Samuel plan as worse than parti¬ tion..;A new Zionist party has .been fornied . in Czechoslovakia with the sole purpose of combating -, parti¬ tion... Two factors held responsible for England's postponing of final ac-. tion on partition are the opposition of Egypt to a Jewish State and fear that partition/might interfere with nego¬ tiations for an Anglo-American recip¬ rocal trade treaty...Polish anti-Sem¬ ites are howling that the Revision¬ ists have sent secret instructions to all Jewish reserve army . officers throughout the world to register for service in the army of the proposed Jewisii State...   ;
Via Heat Wave ¦ Someone   iii. the  Nazi  regime has
, a sense of. humor...Julius Streicher, whose paper, Der Stuermer, is no¬ torious • for its filthy contents, has been appointed special commissar to Mfatch- over the .utilizatifin of gar¬ bage. He's flic perfect man for the job...William Rippel, the Warsiaw lawyer who tried to lead a couple of Inmdrcd young Polish Jews on a march to Palestine, has ¦been arrested on .a charge of swindling.. .Berlin i^ buzzing with talli ¦ that Hjalmar Schacht, Naziland's !economic ma- .qician.^i.B slated-to get-tlw gat-i^. .-For piice Jevvs aild Nazis agree on one thing...They don't like Sigmund Freud's, assertion, that Moses was an Aryan...The Nazis obje-pt because it puts a crimp in their argument that the Ten Commandments Should be tabooed as the work of a non-Aryan.. While the. Jews are horrified at the thought of Moses being anything but a good Hebrew...There must be lots of Orthodox Jews in Bombay.. .The
/enterprising Bombay street car com¬ pany has.issued special tickets which Jewrs   can  utilize pn   Saturday   and
. Jewish holidays when they won't handle money...Franz .Werfel lias been invite<l by the secretary of the League of Nations to represent Aus¬ tria at the next meeting "of; the League's Committee for. Intellectual Cooperation...
. Political Department
. If the anti-Nazi issue plays a part
. in the forthcoming New York mayor¬ alty election, Samuel Untermyer may filid' himself in an embarrassing spot. ..Untermyer has endorsed the candidacy of Grovcr Whalen, who in 1033 indignantly demanded that Un- termyer's Anti-Nazi Leagxie repudiate A press release claiming that. Whalen had joined its board of directors;.. And he got the retraction...Mayor La Guardia, on the other hand, who'll be Whalen's opiwnent, is a, vice-president of thc Aiiti-Nazi League..'.Wc weren't fooling when we warned you that .those vigilante committees springing up everywhere had ari anti-Semitic tinge.. .One of the leaders of the Citizens' .National Committee, an outgrowth of the Johnstown, Pa., vigilantes, is Don Kirkley, former editor of a K. K. K. sheet...State Senator William A. Do- lan, an ally of Mayor Frank Hag\ie- of Jersey City, was the lawyer re¬ tained by the Nazis to search for the title of the 100-acre Camp Nordland at Andover, which is in Dolan's dis¬ trict.. .Nerts to H. W. Prentiss, Jr:, president of the Armstrong, Cork Go. of Lancaster, Pa., who told the American Chamber of Commerce in Londbii that the United States will have a 'Fascist regime in a few years...Wall Street is whispering that the real reason why Governor Lehman blasted FDR's Supreme Court bill is Mrs*. Lehman...A hun¬ dred German residents of Florida cabled a message of congratulations to v., S. Ambassador Bingham in London for his bold denunciation gf dictatorships...
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See Mandates Commission Rejecting Partition Plan In Present Form
British Spokesman Says England Is Not Tied Down to
Partition; Sees Possibility of Negotiations
With Jews and Arabs
GENEVA (WNS) — That the iLeaghe of Nations Mandates Com- niif^sion \vill reject thc British govern¬ ment's Palestine partition plan in its present form and request England to submit another partition  proposal at
later session of thc Comniission ih thc opinion of those close to members of the Commission, who are now, con¬ sidering the partition scheme. It. is understood tliat the Commission is in accord with, England oi( the principle of partition, but not on the details. Ih view bf this situation it is con¬ sidered unlikely that any definite ac¬ tion on Palestine will cpmc" from Geneva before the end of the year.
Meanwhile details of a new Pales¬ tine scheme drafted by Baron Strabplgi, the ,_ former Commander Ken worthy, have created considerable iijtcrest here. The Strabolg| plan pro¬ poses that all of Palestine be set aside as the Jewish National Home, with thc promise-that it will ultimately be¬ come, a sovereign State and admitted to the British Empire iis the seventh dominion. The Jews, according to this plan, would guarantee the minority rights bf Arabs who remain in Pales¬ tine- and would aid financially those who emigrate to Trahsjordaa Baron Straboigi sets only one condition on his plan, namely, that the Jews prevail upon the Arabs to accept it.
GENEVA (WNS-PalCor Agency) Although the British government considers partition of Palestme "the most hopeful solution of the dead¬ lock," it "is neither tie<I./down nor committed to the partition scheme," British Colonial Secretary Ormsby- Gore explained I. to the P-ermanent Mandates Commission of the; League of.. Nations. Mr. Ormsby-Gore out¬ lined the report of the Royal Commis¬ sion,' and stated: that, the British gov¬ ernment' has .approved a request involving negotiations with the Jews and Arabs if -they are wiling to ne¬ gotiate. He, also pointed out that the British government has recognized that, the Mandates Commission has been authorized to give a preliminary report to the League Council.' Parlia¬ ment, he added, has reservecl the right to examine any definite, scheme that may be formulated. If Parliament retaincjd this. right, then equally the Mandates .Commission and the League Council had the same right; prelim¬ inary approval or disapproval Would carry far, he'stated. , Obtaining ;app,roval of. the Royal Commission's recommendjiition involved drafting treaties and military agree¬ ments and the amendment of. the Mandate for those parts of Palestine which are affected, he said.. It was the Colonial Secretary's duty, he ex-. plained, to bring the proposal in the form of a White Paper and invite the Commission's judgment. He then out¬ lined the procedure of the British government in carrying out gradually the   proposals   involved.     These,   he
pointed out, aimed at the termination of thc Mandate for Transjordan and for the larger part of Palestine, and for the creation of two iiKlcpeiident .States; A reservation in the Mandate would be made for certain places in Palestine.     .
''It, is foolish to imagine that the task is easy. But the diUfcrciiccs can be overcome. : The scheme! is. the best and most hopeful solution of the dead¬ lock," Mr. Ormsby-Gore asserted.
• After reviewing the background,of the ..Palestine Mandate, he said.that no other mandated territory was af¬ fected by such wide and far-reaching international interests. .The Allied Powers,, with the Sykcs-Piopt agree- mcnt,as a basis, he emphasized, wanted to internationalize Palestine. Now the British Colpnial Secretary .asks the Mandates. Commission to consider not only ' thc administration's' record but also the future and political des¬ tiny of Falcstinc.,'' Referring;to the suggested boundaries p£ the projected States, he declar(?d that careful nego¬ tiations were necessary, and pointed but that the Royal Commission had recommended reference of the subject to a Bounda,ry Commission. He ex¬ plained that he wished to discuss that very matter with the Mandates Com¬ mission at this sessioiiy adding that the setting up of thc Boundary Coin- mission needs explanation,^
An effort by Mr. Oirmsby-Gloire to persuade the Mandates Commission to deal first with the recommendations of the Royal Commission seemed doomed as members expressed preEcr- ence for a thoroughgoing survey of the administration of Palestine.-
Continuing his statement, the British spokesman referred to the confiictinfe aspirations of the twb communities in Palestine and the effects upon them of the. changing status o£ neighboring Iraq, Syria and-Egypt, -He;referred to the Jewisli, position, ih .different countries and emphasized that spiritual ideals had ammatcd the issuance of the BalJioiir Declaration. He pointed out- that the hardship;.of the. Jewish position had heen sharpened by mod¬ ern general migratioii difficulties.' ( ^Reviewing the efforts made by the j British : government to reconcile its obligations .in Palestine, the Colonial Secretary recalled the efforts to create a Legislative Council and directed at¬ tention to the cpnsequences of its' fail¬ ure.   .,¦¦.¦'.       	
He;, concluded with a statement of what he considered the basic elements of the partition schenie,. which, if it succeeded, he said,.would provide the solution for the complex problems of Palestine.
Commission Adopts 3-Point Palestine Study Prtfgram    r
GENEVA (WNS-r^alcor Agency) —TIic Ixagiic Maiidalcs Commission has decided that .-.its primary fuiictiaii is to examine tl^e iulmiiii.slration of Palestine With i yi(;vv tp deciding whether the MantliUi: is workable. A :i-poiiit definition of .lho Commission's task was unanimously adopted by the nicnibcfs as. folloWs:
i. To cxamin^ llic administration of Palestine during the last two years. This js necessary, the Commissipi. held, not only because- it is a duty imposed by, the League Covenant and the Mandate, butVliCL-iuse it is calcu¬ lated to cast lightl un the fundamental issue, namely, nnnlification of the Palestine rejjimevaK proposed by tht Mandatory Power
2.. To ascertain whether the ma¬ terial presented is siilBcient to enable the League Council to form an ppinioii on the problem as ;i whole, and on thc various solutions ,SllJJ^;cstcd. The Man- dales Commission will ask the repre¬ sentative of the Mandatory Power tb supplement thC: infurmation required.'
S. Tp give thti; Council an account of the. advantages and disadvantages of each of the possible solutions of the Palcsthie problem: namely, the maintenance of the.e\-isting Mandate, modification of the Mandate, cantoni- zation, partition aful any other possi¬ bility that may arise out of the dis¬ cussion. ¦
Exajnining the Whole 'docuhiehtation, the Mandiates Cohimissiort will ascer¬ tain whether the 'Mandate drafted in 11)22 is unworkEtble or whether inter¬ vening circumstances have made licces- sary futjdamcntal changes for carry¬ ing it out. The Cpnuuission will open an examination; of the Palestine gov¬ ernment's annual report for 1930 and part of 1J)35| fakihg into account the information and camment contained in the Royal .Comniission report..
CONGRESS OPENS AT ZURICH
Weizmann  Asks  Congress
For  Definite  Stand
On Partition
ZURICH (WNS—Palcor Agency) —Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president 4»f the Worl^I Zionist, Organization, askcfl that the Congress, instead of deferring aciion, should make a definite decision on the question ot the Jewish State at the present session.'
His demand was voiced at the closing Bcssipii of the Poalc Zion conference, which he entered to¬ gether with Mrs. Blanche Dugdale, nie.ee and biographer of Lord Bal¬ four, and Prof. Lewis B. Namier, historian. In his remarks on the Royal Commission proposal t^r. Weizmann said that hc personally had never hitherto conjured the name ot tl>o Jewish State, which for him Was a holy term. But ohcc pronounced, he added, the name eannot be taken in vain. lie said this in preface to his plea thnt ac¬ tion oh the partition scheme shoiild riot be postponed.
Americans at Congress Dif¬ fer on Partition Issue
B'nai B'ritVShifts Directors At Hillel JFoundations
5i ShipB at Tcl Aviv Port in Month
TEL AVIV (W N S — Palcor Agency)—During the month of July a total of 51 ships stoppediat the harbor of this city, the port commit¬ tee announces.
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Weizmann Denies Palestine Mandate Unworkable—Commends Commission for "Sympathy and Understanding"
Sees Zionism Still Only Radical Solution of Jewish Problem
:. . Gruenbaum Memorializes Sokolow . . . Delegates
Divided on Partition Issue but Majority Seen
Filvorable to Negotiations with England
USSISHKIN IS EI.ECTED CONGRESS PRESIDENT
FIFTY COUNTRIES ARE REPRESENTED
ciNci.v]srATi;',OHiO (WNS)
Major changes'iti Jiersonnd afFecting thr(ie of B'nai B'rith's Hillel Founda¬ tions were announced . here by the Hillel Foundation Commissionr Rabbi Theodore Gordon, assistant,to Rabbi Morris Lazdron of Baltimore, is named director of .the Hillei uitit at Penn State .Gollege tb succeed Rabbi Ephraim ¦ Fiscboff,' who has been shifted to. the directorship of the Gornell University Hillel. Foundation. Rabbi Maurice Pekarsky, 'the director at Cornell, was transferred to the Foundation at Northwestern Univer¬ sity to replace Rabbi Martin Weitz, who rcsigticil to accept a pulpit at Kenosha, Wis. It was also announced that the Hillcl I'oundation at North-, western has. become an olTicial. part of the university through the appoint¬ ment of a director of religious educa¬ tion to the uiiiversity staff. This change resulted' in the University in¬ viting , the various' religious groups; including Hillel, to maintain their of¬ fices at the' Coast Guard Building, headquarters of the religious director. Henceforth the. classes and other ac¬ tivities of Hillel wiir be held in uni¬ versity buildings:  ,
ZURICH CWNS-Palcor Agency) --The . sharp differetices among the American delegation .on. the' partition issue were accentuated, in .a brisk verbal battle between Elihu D. Stone of! Boston and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Oeveland, vice presidents ol the Z. 0. A., during a caucus of the Confederation of Gche'rarZionists.' Mr. Stone declared that; he wished, to dis¬ pel the impression that all tlie Ameri¬ can, delegates are. against the partition plan. "The resoliitioh adopted.at the recent New. "Vork convention of the Zionist Organization was modeled on the one adopted by the'Actions Com¬ mittee," he saiij, "and just as the latter is not binding .on, the Congress, so the 'former- does iiot. hinder a cbn'sideratioii of the possibilities. A plebiscite among Anierican Zionists would, show an overwhelming majority 'in support of Dr.; WSizmann." At this point Rabbi Silver arose to offer shai-p objection^ Louis Lipsky,. chairman of the American delegation, urged the Gen- 'cral Zionist Conference to explore the possibilities pf partition through '.a special commission to be created .by the Congress.. His vie\vs, regarded, as favorable to the fundamental partition ideji, w'ere made known, at the caucus of General Zionists, Group A.
Great applause ivas given to Eabbi Silver when he declared that nothing had happened since the issuance of tlie: Royal Commission report and. the House of Commons 'debate to change bis nog.ative attitude. A different stand was indicated by Mr. Lipsky when he argued that Gi'eat Britain insists that the. Mandate is inoperative. There¬ fore, he said, .the Zionist Executive should be authorized to explore the new possibilities, continuing negotia¬ tions with the cooperation of a per¬ manent political commission to be ap¬ pointed by. the Congress.
54 American Jews Trapped In Chinese War Zone
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—. Fifty-four .\merican Jews are among the foreigners trapped, in Tientsin, China, scene of heavy fightiiig be¬ tween Chinese . and Japanese troops, according to reports received here by the State Department from American consular officials in China. The Jews in thc war area are: Mr. and Mrs. Harry tierk and daughter, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Bihovsky and two sons, Brooklyn; Staff Sergeant and Mrs. Irving Bisnoff, Philadelphia; Emma and Sam BHwass, Brooklyn; Mr. anti Mrs. Aaron Brecker ahd son, Brooklyn; Joseph Brenner, New "Vork; Mr. antl Mrs. Harold Brim- berg, New York; Israel Dornor, New York; Mrs. Kdith B. Epstein, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fink and daughter, Queens Village, L. i.; Maurice S. Glibcr, New York; Albert Gold, New York; Henry Goldberg, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Herskbvitz and three sons. New York; Mr. aiiil Mrs. Hyman Hodes, Brooklyn; Hyman Lederberg, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Men- dclson and two children. New York; Seymour D. Rabinowitz, Yonkers; and Seyiiiour Seligman, Adolph Sliefts, Mr. and Mrs. Kate Silverberg and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Yanowe, all of New York City. ,
; -ZURICH (WNS)—Faced -with the liist6ric task of accepfing or rejecting the-proposed partition of I'alestine which wotild leatl tb the realization of Theodor Herzl's dream of a Jevvish state, an', electric thrill r.iu through the more than: 500 delegates and thou¬ sands of visitors from fifty countries .as Menahem Mendel Ussish¬ kin, President of the Jewish National Fund and one of the few surviving co-workers of Herzl, formally opened the 20th Bientiial World Zionist Congress in the Ztirich Tonhalle just forty years after Herzl enunciated the Jewish; state, idea at the First Zionist Congress, at Basle, Switzerland.     ,    ;
Although none of this speakers at the opening session referred directly to the burning question of partition the atmosphere was charged with excited anticipation of the forthcoming inevitable de¬ bate on thesole major:issue.confronting this international,Zionist assenilily. Ussishkin, grand old man of iiiodern Zipnism and un¬ compromising generalissimo of the aiiti-pai-tifion ,,forces,: was: ac¬ corded a storniy ovation as he lifted the gavcl held at the last con¬ gress by the late'Nahum-Sokolow. 'While Isaac-Gruenbaum's memoHal address on Dr. Sokolow moved many at the congress to tears, the highlight of the opening session was the presidential speech by. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of tlic World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency,
..The feeling that.Zionism is one the verge of a new era. per¬ meated the delegates from the very outset,. Many of the old- timers who w.ere pivotal figures at Zionist congresses for more than a: generation were^missing. -Tire survivors of. the old guard of.;, Herzliaii' congresses were; thinned to a mere handful at this con¬ gress. Few of the present delegates participated in the ; famous Uganda Congress of 1903, at which Ussishkin, then a young and aggressive leader, led the itiilitant opposition to Herzl, who favored: accepting England's offer of: Uganda as a Jevvish state. Now Ussishkin, elected congress president,, the'highest office iti the gift . of the supreme Zionist bqdy, finds himself in tlie positiiin occupied by Herzl and his.followers 34 years ago, with the,ypunger getiera- tion of delegates leaning toward acceptance of partition provided the boundaries of the proposed Jewish state arc amended.  ;
Although partition has split every party so badly that none are likely to vote either way as a unit, a prelirninary survey of senti¬ ment athpng all delegations, shows; that apprpximately ^470 favpr tiegOtfations Vvith the British government on the jpartition proposal, while 190 are uncompromisingly against partition under any cir¬ cumstances. Only a handful of delegates are tinconiniitted cither way. Even in the Ainerican delegation, there is anything but unanimity on this issue. Dr. Stephen S.,Wise is iiiaking;every effort to swing the delegation info the aiiti-partition camp, wltile other members favor comprdmising.      . _,
Registration of delegates is, still under wpy, but at this titne the represeijtation of the various Zionist parties can be compiited as fpllows: Labor, 201; Mizraclii, 70; General Zoinists A, xio; General Zionists B, 33; Jewish State Party, 8.: The Gerinan dele¬ gation of 31 is attracting great attention because pf its delicate position. Similar interest is focused 011 thc smaller delegation from Italy and the handful of: delegates froin Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Vvho are atteiiding their fii^st Zionist Congress. All told, 50 countries: from every, corner of the earth are represented.
Ezras Noshiiii Picnic To ;Be
Held at Heimandale
Grove Sunday
.Thti entire community is invited to the annual picnic being held at Hei- maiidale Grove Sunday (tomorrow) August Sth. Twenty-five cents will admit an entire family to this big event of the summer stjastin. Mrs. 1. Shenker, chairman of arrangements, announces that there will be free prizes for all: children who attend the picnic^
^he proceeds of this affair will go towards helping many poor ahd needy Jews of Cohimbus. The Sticiety seeks the cooperation of Columbus Jewry-iii the success of this great effort.
Tq the .people whtj have 110 means of reaching the picnic grolinds,- free transportation will be, provided at the end of the South Parsons Ave. car. line..
Lawyers Sworn In
Among the 34 Franklin County candidates who passed the June Ohio State bar examination, wer6 Harry Krakoff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Krakoff, 708 Bedford PI., and Sain Topolosky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Topolosky, 10-14 E. Main St. They were sworn in Friday afternoon by Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt of the Ohio supreme court.  <  '.
¦ ZURICH ,;(WNS—Palcor Agency)—Addrisssing- a Congress believed to have the pohtical destiny of; the Jewish nation in its hands, Dr. Chaim Weizmann made a challenging defense of 40 years of the Zionist movement in which he denied that the Pales¬ tine Mandate had proved unworkable and asserted that the note struck by the Royal Commission in.its rcceiit report recalled Theo¬ dor Herzl's dream of a Jewish State tvvo generations ago. Speak¬ ing in his caipacity as president of the Zipnist Organization,'Dr. Weizmann niade a general resume of tlie world Jewish situation' aild of the developments in Palestine as he ppened the historic session at the Tonhalle. He touched only briefly on the dominant political issue of this feverish cpiigress, saying that he would deal more fully with the subject in his political address.
A compassionate appraisal of the plight of inillions of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, a ringing tribute to the Jewish coin¬ munity in Palestine, criticism of the Palestine government for its part during the disorders and for hs general administriition of the Mandate, opposition to the thesis adopted by the ROyal Commission and objection to the; British government's method in executing the Commission's recommendations formed the theme of Dr. Weiz- n^ann's speech.
"The two years since the Congress at Lucerne have been a most trying period for the Yishuv and the Diaspora," Dr. AVeiz- niann said. "The situation of the Jewisii people throughout the world is now at its most tragic point, with millions of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe deprived of the rights of citizenship and livelihood. Anti-Semitism is growing; and the Jewish problem has become a burning international question of which Zionism is Still the only radical solution. There is security only in the great democracies of Western Europe and America and iu a few smaller European coiintries, including Switzerland."
"Jewry is perhaps now emerging from forty years in the wil¬ derness and from national chaos. Forty years ago Herzl's 'Juden- staat' changed the face of Jewry," Dr. Weizmanii reminded his audience as he made note of the fact that the first Congress was summoned in Switzerland in 1897.
The Zionist president welcomed the participants in the first Congress and took occasion to pay tribute to the memory of Nahum Sokolow, "who was the personification of Jewish scholarship and culture and the vangiiard fighter for Zionism in his capacity as chairman of the Zionist Executive and repeatedly as president of the Congress. In him died a leader whose death is an irreparable loss to fhe movement." "Throughout the upheavals since 1897 Jews have shared the fate of nations biit have' never been masters ojE their own fat6, because everywhere they liave been a minority and at the mercy of pthers. Yet the present Congress is stronger than ever, with energy undiminished and will unshaken, cpnscious of its resppnsibility for the future of the Jewish people. This C^on- gress is entitled to say 'Shehecheyanu,' " Dr. 'VVeizmann continued, pronouncing the Hebrew blessing. "The preserit is a critical time, (Continued oil paye 2)