Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-04-14

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Volume 18.   No. 17.
COliUMBUe, OHIO, PEIDAY, APBIIi W, lOaO
Dovoted to American nnd JmvlHli Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Vidliita Prom Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIUON
FACTS AND FORECASTS
One reason why Britain is now making efforts to stop Elitler is that South Africa and the form¬ er German colonies in Africa iiro the next step on the Nazi pro- sram . . . Imagine the chagrin of Gabby Goebbels when, on berating Berlin opera officials for not producing more operas like "Burgschaft," his favorite, he learned that tho composer of that opus is Kurt Weill, refugee from Nazism, who has been do¬ ing fine in the U.S. . . . German refugees—and especially those -w'lth families still in Naziland— nre warned to look out for house¬ maids with Gorman accents in New York hotels . . . Some of them aro Nazi spies . . . Not until early in 1940 will tho world he rid of Hitler, says the astro¬ loger who some months ago pre¬ dicted .that the Ides ot March would be critical this yoar (re- ' member Czcchosiovalria?) . . . He adds that war will break out any time between now and May, 1940, and that tho result will bo the end of.the present Italian and German regimes ... A Refu- .gees Congregation has been opened In the social hall of one of New York's West Side syna¬ gogues by Dr. Joachim Prinz, himself a refugee who came here from his natiye Germany • xi'x.a couple of years ago, after a m^'of 'Kuii^jSls-and-concen- tration camps. "Wm WONDlSlt
How  come  that  New York's Sfith Street Casino, headquarters for Nazi-made films, advertises ill  a  German refugee  weekly? , . . Are you one of those dumb clucks who sigh that if Hitler only weren't an anti-Semite our own Government would do well to take lessons from him? . , . Tlien consider that in Naziland two thirds  of tho  national  in¬ come is used to carry out the "political and social tasks" Adolf has   .set   himself .' . . And   of course this money is collected by the Nazi government in the form of taxes . . . We wonder whoihor that recording of the February   Nazi   Bund  rally  in Madison  Square Garden which .Hitler recently received includes Dorothy   Thompson's   laughter and the thuds of the blows uni¬ formed storm troopers rained on thu little .Tew   who   told   Fritz Kuhn what he thought of him ... If Fritz Wiedemann, Nazi Consul in San Francisco, is won¬ dering why ho wasn't received too cordially at the'20th-century Fox movie lot recently, we'll toll him that the chief guide there, Captain   J.   A.   Strasser,   is   a lirother  of  Gregor   Strasser,  a victim of the Nazi blood purge some years ago. AXIS AXIOMS  .
In view of the zeizure of Al¬ bania by the Rome-Berlin axis powers—impending at the time of writing, and probably accom¬ plished long before this reaches you—we offer the following chorus for a famous British anthem:
"Rule, Brlttanla! Britannia waives the rules!
Brlton.s! Neville, Neville, Neville thinks you're fools!" ¦ Credit for the first line goes, of course, to the I.L.G.W.U. revue "Pins and Needles" , . . W^hat we mean is, Cliamberlain knew what ho was doing when he shouted s'o loudly, about I'oland, tho non-German parts of
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LONDON (WNS)—Lord Win¬ terton, chairman of tlic Inter- .governmental Committee for Hofugoes, told the House of Commons that the refugee prob¬ lem could not bo solved unless the German govermnent showed a willingness to cooperate. "Bo- fore the refugees can come here, there must be an exit visa given by the German govern¬ ment," said Lord Winterton, "but many refugees cannot enter England because thoy are not ; allowed out of Germany. If we could get tho Roich government ; -^ to allow these people to come out and take with them some portion of their wealth, some¬ thing could bo done," he ex¬ plained.
Hundreds of fugitives from Nazi persecution in Czecho Slovakia continue to pour into England in spite of tho fact that Nazi authorities have refused to give permission for their depar¬ ture. About 1,700 Sudeten .Ger-, man Social Democrats, Czechs, Jews and fugitives who had gone to Czecho-Slovakia from Germany and Austria have reached England since Hitler took Bohemia and Moravia. In addition there are approximately 1,000 in Poland and several hun¬ dred in the Netherlands Waiting to come here.. For the thousands of others, there now seems to be no escape, for the Nazis still refuse to grant requests of the British Government for the re¬ lease ot thousands of marked men and their families who are in the greatest danger.
R. A. Butler, foreign under¬ secretary, told a questioner in the House of Commons that the Home Ofice was investigating a charge that Austrians living in Kngland wore receiving tele- phono calls from tho German secret police, threatening pun¬ ishment of their relatives if they'do not send pan of their money to Austria.
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Implieil Erilish Recognilien d Jewish Emigration ProUeni In Folanil Seen As Possilile Impairment of kmh Siluali^n
Itlurray Wiener
Local Women To Attend Detroit Council Meet
The mid-Eastern conference ot the Council of JewLsh Women, headed by Mrs. Simon Lazarus, pre.sident, will convene in De¬ troit with headquarters at the Statler Hotel on April 18, 19, and 20th. Mrs. Robert Blashek is secretary of the mid-eastern sec¬ tion comprising delegates from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
The conference will open Tuesday evening with a banquet at tho Statler Hotel at which Mrs. Marion Miller, national executh'e officer, will .speak. Discussions on Wednesday will be devoted to 'Service to the Foreign Bom' while Thursday morning will be, given over to .section problems, legislation and peace. Election and Installation of officers will conclude the meeting Thursday  afternoon.
Delegates from Columbus who will attend nre Mrs. William Schiff, Mrs. E. J. Gordon, Mra. Harry Roth, Mrs. Harry Gold¬ berg, Miss Alice Loeb and Mrs, M. Hoffman. Alternates in-clude Mrs. Henry  Piatt,  Mrs.  Lester
One of the two Jews who ac¬ companied Clifford J. Mac¬ Gregor on his Arctic Expedition to tho North Pole to study weather conditions and mag¬ netic behavior will address a joint meeting ot the AZA. and B'nai B'rith Jr. Auxiliary this Sunday afternoon at the Virginia Hotel. He is 25-year old Murray Wiener ot Asbury, N. J. Murray served as the official photo¬ grapher for tho expedition that spent over 15 months in the land of the midnight sun.
Before going to the North Pole, Mr. Wiener served as a re¬ porter oh the -Newark, N. J; Biar-Eagle and; worked with a Movie Magazine Holly wood liow- dowh.'*: While working as a cameraman in Hollywood, Mur¬ ray became .good friends with Ceaser Romero, the" handsome Cuban movie star and' to this date they stlU carry on cor¬ respondence with each other.
Wiener is ' an active B'nai B'rith memberi While attending the University of Missouri, he helped- organize the Spinoza Lodge of which he is a.charter member. At. present he. is a member,of a Manhatten Lodge, but .since he has intentifins 'of making Columbus his home town, he is transfering to the Columbus Zion Lodge of the B'nai B'rith. Murray is also a past Aleph Godol of the iVsbury Park A.Z.A. chapter.
In Columbus, Wiener js living at the home of his boyhood chum, Harold Siegelman, 687 Lilley Ave. .
.LONDON (WNS)—Josef Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, was as¬ sured by the British .Govern¬ ment that the question of emi¬ gration and colonization facili¬ ties for some 3,BOD,000, Polish Jews would be examined. The British Foreign Office issued a statement expressed a willing¬ ness to discuss the matter but did not commit the British Gov¬ ernment to include Polish or Rumanian Jews lii the Evian Committee's colonization schem¬ es. The statement follows-
"In tho course ot recent con- vcr.-aations m London Colonel Beck expres.sed the desire that any international effort for tlie treatment of Jewish problems should be extended to that of the .Tews in Poland and that Jewish immigrants throughout Poland should have their share in any opportunity for settlement which may be found Colonel Beck at the samo time, at tlie request ot the Rumanian Gov¬ ernment, drew attention to the similar problem ot enlisting Ru¬ mania  Colonel Beck was assur-
grate aroused tears in .lewish circles that the improved posi- ¦ tion ot the Jewish situation In Poland may be impaired. It had been hoped that closer Anglo- Polish relations would seive to advance the position ot Jews in Poland. Poland had demanded that territories like British Guiana, the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, the Philippines arid Northern Rhodesia, which now are being surveyed as pos¬ sible refugees for Jews from Germany, should bo opened to Polish and Rumanian .Tew.s as well. Tho British, however, hesi¬ tate to complicate an already in¬ volved refugee problem from Germany and until tho coloniza¬ tion schemes tor German Jews are well under way it is hoped liere that Poland will not at¬ tempt an anti-Jewish policy along the lines Ot the persecu¬ tion in Germany.
.Jewish circles feared that the British Foreign Office state¬ ment might bo considered as lecognition by Britain tiiat a separate     Jewish     emigration
ed that His  Majesty's  Govern- problem exists in Poland exclu- ment fully appreciated the dif- ^ive ot general emigration prob-
fieulty to which he had referred and was at any time ready to examine with the PoUsh and Rumania Governnionts pro¬ posals for the solution ot prob¬ lems arising in Poland and Ru¬ mania which are a part of the larger problem."
The implied recognition by the British Government that'> Poland may have a "surplus" Jewish population  which should  eml-
Actioiis Committee Mieeting Postponed
Annual Jubilee To Take Place May 7th
Plans are rapidly taking form for the Fifth Annual Jubilee bf the Columbus Hebrew School to be held at the Hartman Thea¬ tre on Sunday, May 1. The fea¬ ture attractions scheduled are a Jewish talking picture "Mamel," starring Molly Picon, one of America's leading stars of the Yiddish stage and screen and a stage play in English "The Avenger" to be presented by the Bexley Ai't Theatre under the direction of William Robina.
Two performances have been scheduled,   a   matinee   at   2:30
p. m. and in the evening at 8:30, Thai, iirs."!. L. Goldberg, Mrs.  Complete details of this event
¦\iever Ginsburg und -Mrs. Louis  will    appear    in     forthcoming M. Harris. 1 issues ot the CHRONICLE.
¦LONDON (WNS)—The ses¬ sion of the Zionist Actions Com¬ mittee, originally scheduled to be held in Jerusalem toward the end of this montli; was cancelled in view of the postponement by the British Government of its statement on Palestine policy.
The: postponement of the meeting is also known to have resulted from- the attitude of the American Zionist leaders, who had strongly urged that no meeting be held, since nothing had occurred since theconfei- ences at St. James Palace to warrant a convocation of Zion¬ ist leadership to formulate fu¬ ture policies. It is planned, how¬ ever, to hold several informative conferences in eastern and western Europe, with the par¬ ticipation of members ot the Zionist Executive, to clarity the Jewish attitude toward the British Government.
The departure of Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial Secretary, for a two-week holiday on the Continent, seemed to confirm the general impression that an announcement ot British policy in Palestine Is not imminent. It is not believed that further steps will be taken before the reassembling of Parliament. There were some indications, however, that a statement of policy might be expected at the end of April. The increased ten¬ sion in the European situation has been responsible for British delay in taking action on Pales¬ tine.
leras. It would appear, therefore, that England is showing a wiU- ingnesB to differentiate between Jewish arid^noffJewiish" cltlzSiis""* —a distinction which the Jews have always fought against.
Lord Winterton warned the House of- Commons that it was impossible for any of the thirty- two governments represented at the Evian Conference to accept , the financial responsibility for- transfer and upkeep of tho refu¬ gees from Central Europe be¬ caiise all the thirty-two govern¬ ments are "faced with difficult economic situations. The last thing that would induce the Reich Government to be reason¬ able about the amount of prop¬ erty that the .Tews would be allowed to take out ot Ger¬ many," Lord Winterton said, "would be for tho Evian Cora-- iriittee to assume financial re- sponsibilitj'." At tho same time he emphasized the necessity for greater cooperation liy Germany before any real solution of the problem could bo worked out.
WAKBURG HOMU NOW AS STUDY CENTlflU FOB NYU INSTITUTE OP FINE ARTS
NEW YORK (WNS) — The five-.story building which was the residence ot the late Felix M. Warburg is- now completely converted into a lecture and study building for tho New York University Institute of Fine Arts. A collection ot rare illu.s- trated books oii art and related subjects, among which are copies of the "Catalog of the Adolph Lewisohn Collection of French Paintings and Sculp¬ tures," Franz Lenbeck's "Zelt- genossiche Bildnisse," and "Emil Michel's "Rembrandt, His Lite Work and Time," have been compiled at the University library as a result of the gen¬ erosity of Mrs. Warburg. Some of the tapestries which were among the original hangings in the house have been allowed to remain "on permanent loan to the institute" from Mrs. War¬ burg.
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