Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-07-09

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Volume XVII—No. i8s
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JLl.Y y. 7937
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Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Dots and Uashca
Diplomatic circles are buzzinjj with a ninior that the Polish ainhassador to Roumania is the paymaster for Nazi agents in that country.. .And there are whispers that Marina, Duclicss of Kent and aisler-in-law of King George VI of England, ia giving her royal in¬ laws a headache because of her too intimate association with Nazis in London...Don't let anybody tell you that all Germans liave .succumbed lo anti-Semitism . . . When Herr Ros- kamp, Nazi director in charge of dis¬ tribution of fodder, w.is arrested for having defrauded peasants in the town of Nordciilcamp of 100,000 marks, thc peasants stoned him and shouted: "We want our Jcwi.sh dealers back" . . . The Palestine government is reported to be giving serious consideration to bringing in a liattalion of Indian head^ Imntcrs to suppress Arab terrorism.. It's still a iccret in Germany, but thu son of Count von Welczek, German ambassador to France, killed himself because he could no longer endure Nazi policies...
Convention' Echoes
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleve¬ land will learn from this th.it his mas¬ terful speech at the Sunday night ses¬ sion of the Zionist convention was not broadcast as had been unnounccd . . . Indirectly the blame belongs to'Abe Goldberg . . . When Abi; began lo speak he talked in Knglish, kno^vlng that the siieech was being broadcastl.. But when the crowd hollered for Yid¬ dish, he obliged...And exactly at fhe moment hc started to speak in Yiddish he was cut off'the air.,.Rabbi Silver, who followed Goldberg to the plat¬ form, was thc innocent victim^ because his speech too didn*t'gct on thc air... Among the gavels Uiud by'the various presiding officers were one from the Zionist convention of 1002 and one from 1903 . . . One of-thc most excit¬ ing moments at thc convention, which most of the delegates missed, was the exhibition of brawn'"by^ihe'publisher" of an Anglo-Jewish ^veekly, who kayoed two Revisionists after they had gotten too obstreperous . .-. Some idea of the comparative popularity 0 f American Zionist leaders among the Zionist rank and file is conveyed by the votes cabt by a secret ballot for delegates to the Zionist Congress . . . Stephen S. Wise topped the list with 301 votes . . . Abba Hillel Silver was second with 3C7, closely trailed by Judge Mack with 361 , -. . Louis Lip¬ sky was fourth with 350 .. . Then canric Morris Rothenberg, 300, and Judge Wiliiani M. Lewis, 302 ... The next four were Abe Goldberg, 2138, Elihu D. Stone, 2-18, Israel Goldstein,
234, and Robert Szold, 21» One of
the big surprises was thc failure of Maurice Samuel to get more than 91 votes, which only won him election as an alternate...The membership report of the Z. O. A. revealed that only Kansas, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada and' Arkansas have no dues-paying members . . . But there are 20,000 Jews in those five states . . . Thc American Jewish World's Man About Town informs us that many Mizr<ichi voters in St. Paul and Minneapolis refused to mark the ballots lor Zion- i.st Congress delegates with a cross... They used Mogcn Davids, circles and "kane", the Hebrew word for yes Thc best per capita shekel record of any city was made by Toledo, which registered SOO votes .. . And thanks to the efforts of thc Toledo district's president, Rabbi Leon Feuer, Toledo was^onc of the few cities that gave the General Zionists a majority... Maritime Reporter If you ocean-travelers spy a ship called the S. S. Jabotinsky don't think you're seeing things . . . Abraham Tschipruth, Bulgaria's leading ship¬ builder, has named his latest oil tanker after Jabotinsky ... At the launching of the Tanker Jabotinsky, Tschipruth said his first three tankers carried the names of Bulgarian fighters for lib¬ erty and hence believed it right to name the fourth one 'for "the greatest Jewish emancipator, Jabotinsky" . . . . Martin Buber has been appointed to the chair of religious sciences at the Hebrew University ... Anti-Semitism doesn't pay in Czechoslovakia . .. The . Arijsky Zpravodaj, Prague Jew-bait-: ing sheet, has suspended publication... Because only 17 of the 70 members of
¦ the Palestine Symphony Orchestra are Palestinians, speciaL Hebrew courses
¦ have been opened for them . , . The planetarium of Nuremberg, the model of which is on display at the German PavtHoit of the World's Fair, was taken apart in 1033 because it was presented to the city by a Jew
\        (Continued pn page 3)
A* A. U. Turns Down Nazi
Bid to Send American
Team to Germany
MILWAUKEE (WNS) — The Anjatcur Athletic Union of thc United States rebuffed a foreign country for thc first time, in its TiO ycara of existence when its combined and foreign relations committees unanimously refused to accept an in¬ vitation to send a track and field team to Germany this summer. Led by President Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Charles L, Ornstcin and other offi¬ cials who directed the losing fight tn keep the Uilited States out of the VX\Q Olympic Games in, Berlin, thc meeting of the two committees ac¬ cepted invitations from Holland, Sweden and Hungary but rejected a bid from Germany. Announcing the decision of the committee, Mr. Ma¬ honey said:
"This is consistent with the stand that I have always taken. I do not believe that our American athletes should go to a country where free dom of speech, religion and action have been abolished. Since I first started thc fight to keep our fine young boys out of a land that persC' cuted thc Jews, the Nazis have begun to attack and stifle Catholicism and Protestantism as well. Nazi ideology cannot conform with American de¬ mocracy."
Rulings of Custom House
Seen as Aid to Anti"
Nazi Boycott
NEW YORK (WNS)—Customs authorities of the United States have informed the Non-Sectarian Antt-Nazi League that in the future they wilt re¬ quire on all foreign-made merchandise thc markings of thc country of actual production rather than thc country of assembling and sale. Boycott leaders have been agitating for such a ruling during the past four years and regard it an important aid to thc anti-Nazi boycott movement.
Until this ruling was made, German manufacturers, anxious to avoid thc disastrous toll of the anti-Nazi boy¬ cott, sent their products to other coun¬ tries for assembly and packing, and shipped them from these countries to the United States with "Made in Ci'cchoslovakia", "Made in Belgium", "Made in Holland" markings on them. Partisans of the boycott movement have been thus purchasing merchan¬ dise from Nazi Germany believing it to be from some other country. Witli the new ruling of thc custom's officials in force, however, all merchandise of original German manufacture wilt have to hear a "\fadc in (jcrmany" mark¬ ing, even though the products arc as¬ sembled, packed and shipped from some other country.
British Troops, Planes and Warships Rush To Palestine
Trouble^ Anticipated Upon Publication of Royal Com¬ mission Report—Hear Boundaries of Jewish State Not Definitely Fixed Yet
WISE   CALLS   PARTITION   PLAN   FANTASTIC   AND
UNWORKABLE — ROOSEVELT. URGED TO
INTERVENE WITH ENGLAND
Borden's  and   ShclTicld's
Boycott International
Dairy Congress
NEW yOHK (WNS) —Bor¬ den's and Shcflicld'n, two o{ the country's largest milk com¬ panies, will not lie represented at the annual iiitcrnntiDnal con¬ gress and exposition of the dairy industry which is to be iield in Berlin in August, according to word received by thc Joint Boy¬ cott Council.
NO'I'Ii: TJie ilmirc: & Ross, Hamilton Dairy and Fwna.'! Ice Cream Co. ill Columbus, arc Bor¬ den owned firms.
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Jewish Homeland Divided
Royal Commission Oecides on Partition,
Reducing Eretz Israel One-third in Size
PALCOI^-SEVEN ARTS CABLE
Nazis Extend Anti-Jewish Laws to Upper Silesia
LONDON (WNS)—Troops, planes and warships are being concentrated In Palestine from Egypt, Transjordan .and all points along the Mediterraneai\. iu anticlpation'ol"possible disturT>ifiiScr in Palestine upon the publication of the report of the British Royal Com¬ mission recommending the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states and a pritisli mandated area. High Commissioner Wauchope has hurried back to Jerusalem from Cairo where he outlhied defense measures with British authorities. It is reported that everything is in readiness for an im¬ mediate proclamation of martial law at the first sign of trouble. The Brit¬ ish constabulary and Jewish supcr- mmiaries in Palestine have been ordered to stand by for immediate action.
J E R U S ALEM (WNS—Palcor Agency)—Arab press reports stated that additional British troops have ar¬ rived in Palestine from Egypt, pre¬ sumably to prevent any outbreaks fol- towifig the issuance of thc Royal Com¬ mission findings. Falastin, an Arab paper, reports armed bands are organ¬ izing in Syria in preparation for enter¬ ing Palestine under thc leadership of Fawzi Bey al Kawkagi, notorious ter¬ rorist leader, in order to fight the cre¬ ation of a Jewish state following the publication of the report of tho Royal Commission. Thc Grand Mufti's visit to Syria is allegedly linked to this scheme, thc Falastin declares.
Reports from Damascus indicate that the Mufti's attempts to obtain thc support of the national bloc now rul¬ ing Syria against partition provetl fruitless. The ruling party treated the Mufti's approaches with considerable reserve and would not formulate any attitude toward partition oi Palestine prior to the Royal Commission re¬ port's appearance, because it is im¬ mersed in Syria's own problems. Thc collapse of the Arab Higher Commit¬ tee was seen here with the withdrawal of the Arab National Defense Party, headed by Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, following a party caucus at Ramallah where its members voted unanimously to quit the Arab committee. In a state¬ ment explaining its withdrawal, thc party declared that it decided to with draw because the Grand Mufti had acted independently in leaving the country vvithout consulting its leaders, and because terrorism had been di¬ rected against them. Henceforth, the Nashashibi party said, the opposition would carry on its activities separately. At a meeting called to consider the withdrawal of the National Defense Party, the Arab Higher Committee issued a manifesto urging all Arab groups to maintain a united national front in anticipation of immin»it emergency and vital problems.   Reply-
Iing to the stateihent of Nashashibi's followers, the committee, presided over
by thc Grand Mufti, declared it would reply later to thc charges against the Mufti of having deserted his post and gone to Syria, but that it did not wish To" ciiTPafk~at tlus'time u*pon'a" con¬ troversy since it was more essential to tackle thc problems confronting the committee.
Poland and Roumania to
Unite in Demand for Mass
Jewisii Emigration
B E L G R ADE, YUGOSLAVIA (WNS)—The visit of King Carol of Roumania to Whrsaw was aimed at crciting a united front between Rou¬ mania and Polanti regarding thc Jew¬ ish problem in both countries, accord¬ ing to reports in the Belgrade press. The newspapers say that the Rou¬ manian monarch's visit to War<;aw was to pave the way for a confer¬ ence between Josef Berk, Polish for¬ eign minister, and Victor Antonescn, Roumanian foreign minister, at which they will ib<iuc a joint com¬ munique to England, France and Italy urging them to open their col¬ onics to settlement by the Jews of Roumania and Poland. It is said that Roumania has joined Poland in claiming tliat it has too many Jews and that both nations will ask the League of Nations to convene a spe¬ cial session for ^w exhaustive exami¬ nation of the jlcwish problem. ^ If these reports are* true it means that Roumania will shortly launch a movement for thc enforced emigra¬ tion of her 1,000,000 Jews as Poland has a![ccad.y dorft^—: ^j, _i..^   —^,~.
LONDON (WNS) — Informed quarters here report that thc British cabinet- has in principle approved the Royal Commissions report and that thc government's statement of policy, to be made public at any moment, will en¬ dorse the general principles of parti¬ tion without however specifying de tails of boundaries and the authority of the Mandatory PoWer over thc Jew¬ ish and Arab states.
In Zionist circles there is a feeling of resentment against articles and comments that appeared in the Yiddish press of the United States which im¬ plied that Dr. Chaim Weizmann and his English Zionist colleagues are sat¬ isfied with the partition plan. There is not the slightest doubt to anyone who takes a walk to Zionist headquar¬ ters on Great Russell Street that the Royal Commission's report is regarded as an absurdity in many respects. It is believed here that the British Gov¬ ernment cannot under any circum¬ stances approve of the inclusion of thc two Deganias, Geshcr, and Naharhaim in thc proposed Arab state, as recom¬ mended by the Royal Commission. It is also regarded as altogether inex¬ plicable that thp Rutenberg electric works and the Dead 3^3 concession, two of the major monuments to Jevv¬ ish initiative in Palestine, should not be part and parcel uf the Jewish state. The allocation of the Negev region to thc Arab state and to the British Man¬ dated area is also viewctl as par.idox.
These major objections, which ir any case would be thc subject of nego¬ tiations between thc Zionist high com¬ mand and the British Government, are not however, the only barricade to an agreement. The English Zionist Fed¬ eration is preparing to speak out as vehemently as the convention of the Zionist Organization of America against partition, and for that reason has invited Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver to make the keynote address at a meet¬ ing to be held before the Zionist Con¬ gress convenes. It would seem that while it may be necessary to enter into negotiations with the _ British Government—and some observers here believe that the government statement of policy will be couched in such gen¬ eral terms as to leave the door open for bargaining—the Zionist leadership expects, that all factions and parties of the Zionist movement will, form a united front which will be ready to stand or fall on the fundamental de¬ mands to the British Government.
(Contintud on page 4)
BERLIN (WNS)—The long arm of Nazi anti-Scinitisin which had been unable to reach thc 25,000 Jews uf German Upper Silesia because of the Polish-German Convention of ISYl'l which guaranteed thc minority rights of residents of German and Polish Upper Silesia was finally ex¬ tended to German Upper Silesia with the publication of an announcement in the German Official Gazette that on July 15th, when the treaty ex¬ pires, all of the anti-Jewish laws in effect in Germany will also become applicable to German Upper Silesia. Thc announcement was signed by Chancellor Hitler, Minister of Jus¬ tice Franz Guertiier, Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick and Rudolf Hess, deputy leader of thc Nazi party.
The decree provides for the imme¬ diate dismissal of all Jewish -public oOiciats unless they are German war veterans, soiis or brothers of veterans or mothers, wives or sisters of vet¬ erans. It also calls for the discharge of Jewish notaries, thc cancellation of Jewish lawyers' licenses on De¬ cember 31, 1937, revocation of Jewish doctors' licenses on September 30, 1037, dismissal of Jewish hospital of¬ ficials, and forbids Jewish doctors and dentists, and doctors or dentists married to Jews to in-actice under the social insurance system. Cancel lation of citizenship acquired by Jews since November 0, IdlS is also or¬ dered. In addition to these specific measures the Decree opens the w<iy to the elimination of Jewish mer¬ chants and the expropriation of Jcw-
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LONDON (WNS)—(i'rilcor Agency)—Declaring that only a radical solution can cope with thc Palestine situation and that pal¬ liatives will not go to tlic root of thc problem, thc Royal Commission report recommends thc establishment of two separate States, Jewish and Arab, and the division of thc country accordingly, it is learned. Two independent Statea for the Jews and Arabs, and a part of the country to remain under a permanent British mandate, is what the Commission proposes. ¦ ¦ *-*iK.f^' I
The Jewish State will comprise the whole of Galilee, Upper and Lower, thc whole of the Valley of Esdraclon, thc greater part of the Beisan area and thc entire coastal plain from Raselnakura in the North to B'eer- tuvia in the South. Thc Northern frontier of the Jewish State will fol¬ low thc existing frontier of Palestine along the Southern boundary of I-cb- anon from the Mediterranean to Syria. The frontier continues along the Syrian boundary along the Jordan and the Sea of Kinnereth to a point North of thc town of Beisan; then it turns West along thc Southern edge of the Valley of Esdraclon to Megiddo, then runs South along the edge of the coastal plain in the foothills with an arc excluding the Arab city of Tul- karem. All Jewish settlements in Transjordan will be included in the Arab State in thc plan.
The important harbor city of Haifa will belong to the Jewish State. About iJ23,000 Arabs, besides thc Arab pop¬ ulation of the towns of Safed, Acre, Haifa and Tiberias, will also be within thc boundaries of the Jewish Slate.
Fur some time to come these towns^ though part uf the Jewish State, will remain under a temporary mandate of Great Britain, and their Arab popula¬ tion will not be obliged to assume Jewish citizenship as long as thc man¬ date remains in force.
The second territorial division of Palestine will go to Great Britain, which will receive a new permanent mandate over Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth as Well as over a cor¬ ridor from Jerusalem to Jaffa, cover¬ ing the area between Jerusalem and thc Jaffa Road and the Jaffa Railway. Thc Arab towns of Ludd and 'Ramleh will be included under this mandate. But the cily of Jaffa will be made part of the Arab State. Part of the Ncgcv region bordering on the Gulf of Akaba will be under British admin¬ istration.
The rest of Palestine, together with Transjordan, will form a new Arab State. To bring about thc establish¬ ment of these two independent States the government will make treaties with representatives uf the Arabs and with the World Zionist Organization.
Congregation To Dedicate Cemetery
¦OABBI A. B. Zilberbcrg, spiritual leader of a number of leading Or¬ thodox congregations of Pittsburgh, will be the principal .speaker at thc dedication ceremonies of thc new Agu¬ dath Achim cemetery, Sunday (to¬ morrow), June 11, at"2:00 p. m. Rabbi Zilberbcrg was, prior to his coining to Pittsburgh, one of the famous rabbis of Poland, and for many years the Rosh Hayeshiva of the "Mesivtah, the well-known Yeshiva of Warsaw, Poland. He is the author of a Rab¬ binical scholarly work and a recog¬ nized authority in thc field of Halacha. Upon his arrival in America two years ago hc was acclaimed throughout the country as one of the most eloqueiu speakers among the Orthodox Rabbis who hailed from abroad.
Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprung will lead in the procession and will be fol¬ lowed by thc guest speaker, the local rabbis, the cantor and his choir, the Chevrah Kaddisha, the Agudath Achim olTicers and board members, and the entire assembly. A plaque, containing the names of the living and deceased ofticers and Chcvrair Kad- dl.sha members of the Agudath Achim congregation will be unveiled after a
solemn and awe-inspiring procession will have passed all four corners of the sanctified ground. Ajipropriate prayers and Psalms will be read at each corner wilh selected hymns of the Slichos of the High Holidays to be chanted by Cantor Ph. Gellman and his trained choir.
Adequate seating accommodations arc provided and a'speakers' platform has been erected especially for the second part of thc program, whicli will consist of the main address by thc guest speaker, and a sijecial me¬ morial service arranged by Rabbi Hirschsprung in honor of the deceased members of the congrcg.ition. Walter Katz, Agudath Achim president, will introduce Arthur Goldberg as chair¬ man of the day's events. Remarks will be made also by Abe Goldberg, chair¬ man of thc Chevrah Kaddisha, and J. Krakoi^itz, chairman of the board of trustees?. Special ii\vitations have been sent to all local rabbis to participate in the program.
At the special memorial services the El Molci Rachamlm will be chanted and all names of the departed inscribed in the congregatiun's Memorial Book (Conlinued on page 2)	
An Invitation
You, your family and friends are cordially invited to attend the
DEDICATION  CEREMONIES
ofthe
NEW CEMETERY
of the
Agudath Achim Congregation
Sunday   afternoon, July Mth, 1937 at two o'clock
An unusual program - has been arranged SPECIAL MEMORIAL SERVICES
In honor of iho daparted members of ihe Congregation will be held
¦ NOTE:—Tfie New Came+ery i$ located on Refugee Pike just west of ihe Infirmary Road. Go to Inlirmary Road past the old Cemetery to Refugee Pike, turn west about 300 feet to new cemetery. . ¦
Granf to Arabs for Population Removal
The Arab State will receive a grant of about $10,000,000 and an additional unspecified contribution for thc trans¬ fer--cit-A,«^b. gottulations from within the Jewish'State hito "I'ransjordan.
Treaties with the two States will provide fot" thc tran.sportatlon of goods
from Jewish Haifa to the Arab State and froni Akaba and Egypt by railway to thc Jewish State. Thc city of, Jaffa will be joined to thc Arab State by *i— ^-.rr.t„T<»mmii^ni "rnrndor under tlje Biitibh mandate. During the transi¬ tion period Palestine will remain under a central British administration.
Jewish and Arab Aspirations Found Irreconcilable
The present regime, according to the Commission, cannot continue. because it mnst lead to endless difficulties. In the opinion of the Commission—which went to Palestine last November under the chairmanship of Lord Peel to in¬ vestigate the administration Qf thc League of Nations Mandate—the na¬ tional aspirations of the Jews and Arabs in Palestine arc irreconcilable, and the hope once entertained of com¬ bining them has not been fulfilled.
Reviewing the promises that were made by the British government to both Jews and Arabs, the report of the Commission says that both the promise to promote the establishment of the Jewish National Home and 'the pledge to the Arabs to help them es¬ tablish Ihcir political independence were given according to British tra¬ ditions and in all sincerity. There is the British tradition of friendship to the Arab peoples in al) the Middle Eastern countries, and there is also the tradition of British sympathy toward the Jews, apd it is in thc in¬
terests  of the  British  to  retain the confidence of the Jews.
The report declares that thc national aspirations of these two peoples are irreconcilable, because thc Arabs want to establish their own empire, while the Jews claim full freedom to recreate Palestine and return to their historic homeland without being subject to limitations. Thc Jewish Agency in¬ sisted before the Royal Commission that thc mandate be carried out in full and that Jewisli immigration into Pal¬ estine be increased.
Neither of these claims can be ac¬ cepted, the Commission finds. Thc claim of the Arabs that Palestine is an Arab country disregards the rights of thc Jews in Palestine aud thc fact that it already has -100,000 Jews. It is inconceivable, the Commission's re¬ port says, that these 400,000 Jews should be handed over to Arab domi¬ nation; nor can 1,000,000 Arabs be handed over to Jewish domination in thc future.
Palliative Proposals Rejected by Commission
In its recommendation of the crea¬ tion of two independent States thc Commission's report says that it had considered the possibility of applying certain palliatives to solve the prob¬ lem, such as cantonization or drastic restriction of Jewiah immigration and laud purchase; but it rejected these and others as failing to go to thc root of the problem.
These included such proposals as thc fixing of a political maximum of Jew¬ ish immigration not to exceed 12,000 yearly for the next five years; the pro¬ hibition of land sales to Jews in cer¬ tain areas and the prevention of Jew¬ ish settlement in the hills. In addi¬ tion, the Commission also considered the plan of appointing Jews and Arabs as representatives in the Advisory or Legislative   Council,   the   discontinu¬
ance of thc principle of allocating a fixed share in public works and serv¬ ices to Jews and thc further restric¬ tion of immigration of "capitalists" and dependents; thc establishment of an Arab agency with the participation of representatives of Arab kings to counterbalance the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Finally, the Commission weighed thc advisability of recom¬ mending such modifications in the mandate as would be required to en¬ able tho mandatory government to in¬ troduce the changes mentioned above. All of these plans were rejected by the Commission, asserting that a rad¬ ical solution was" necessary and that such a solution could be found only in the establishment 'of two separate States dividing the country between Jews and Arabs. ¦
Jewish Immigration to Be Regelated
During the interval of adjustment I and the establishment of the independ¬ ent States the acquisition by Jews of land in future Arab territory and by Arabs, of land in future Jewish terri¬ tory will be prohibited. Jewish immi¬ gration will be regulated according to the principle of thc econqmlc absorp¬ tive capacity of the country, taking into account only the area assigned tp I the Jewish State.
The existing Advisory Council is
to be enlarged with the appointment of additional representatives of the Jewish and Arab peoples. If any of them should refuse to serve, a repre¬ sentative of the other will be appointed nevertheless, "
The Royal Commission in its report expresses its appreciation of the Jew¬ ish work in Palestine and criticizes the Palestine administration for its in¬ effective prosecution of Arab tctrpr- ists during the disturbances.
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