Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-07-28

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Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community ^AlK
Voluiiii! 18.   No. :iO
COiUMUUS, OHIO, FRIDAV, ,1U1,Y 28, l!i:i9
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From ETorywhcro By PHINEAS J. BIRON
novated to Am«rlL-an nnd Jnwlsh lde,ktn.
Legalize Status Of 10,000 Refugees In France
FOREIGN FIELDS
Now that the headlines are screaming out the stories of.the discovei-y of Nazi espionage in France and of the guidance of ¦"a foreign power" in the so-cal¬ led "Irish" bombings Iri London, may we mention that we told you so long ago?. . , The forth- , coming Herschel , Gryuszpan trial in Paris will have a tragic¬ ally ludirous angle :. .: The Nazis will try, to, prove that Polish Jews- are better treated in the Reich than in Poland. . . That 50-year-old steamer "Dora" which left the Netherlands With 500 refugees—destination un- Itnown—last week i)lds fair to other,St. Louis,case unIess,Brit- ain opens the gates of Palestine . . .British Jews are growing worried oyer the Increase in anti-Semil;ism in their country;, and tend to heed the warning sounded by some Parliamentary. , circles that any appreciable ad¬ dition to the Jewish population would strengthen the hand of the anti-Semitic agitators. ., .
-WARCA8TS
It's the German army which is pulling against war in the Reich. . . The generals icnbw what's what, and the Axis pow¬ ers couidn't possibly win. . . But of course they haven't a
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i-SWd the Balkans. :,•. Good news for delegates to the Zionist Con¬ gress at Geneva Is a confiden¬ tial note we've received frora Pierre van Paassen, now abroad, td the effect that there'll be no
, war this year... The most pessi¬ mistic of the other experts pro¬ gnosticate that there won't be a war until Fall at. the earliest... An interesting sidelight is pro- ¦vided by the fact that financial circles are hinting that general disarmament would result in serious "economic dislocations" that' would necessitate "broad market readjustments". '. ¦.. In plain English, high, finance, whiife not underestimating the advantages of peace, doesn't mind War clouds in the offing... JTEWS ABROAD
Did you know that since tlie Issuance of the last British White Paper twelve new Jew¬ ish settlements have been estab¬ lished in Palestine? : . .Arab.na- tlonal' leaders, who are turning to Hitler for-aid in tlieir cam¬ paign    for    ''more    room"—by
- which they mean the compiete stoppage of Jewish immigration to Palestine—are liable to find that their new ally is planning to use Arab territoiy to provide "inore room" for hiinself, . . A Btbry is going the rounds about an American news photograph¬ er, a non-Aryan, who was given an assignment In Rome. . .Due to the new laws in the Musso- bound land the camera man was arrested a numbec of times, his non-Aryanism being vei'X ob¬ vious. , , And was released when lie showed the gendarmes a pic¬ ture of himself taken with F, D. R. hot long before. . . FBIilCITATIONS DEPARTMENT
Congratulations to Magistrate Anna Moskowitz on her ele :tion to the vice presidency of the Na¬ tional Association of Women LawyeiJs. . .And to Reuben Brainin, dean of Hebrew letters, on the achievements of his two graiidsons-ln-law. .   .  Lawrence
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New A. Z. A. Chief
PARIS (WNS)—Usually re¬ liable . sources ditscloscd an agreement made betweeh Jow- islj relief organizations here and the Interior Minister under which approximately 10,000 re¬ fugees from Greater Germany, considered illegal immigrants, would be allowed to remain by having their status ¦ legalized, providing that Jewish relief or¬ ganizations would guarantee to make no further demands for admission of moire refugees. It is said that acceptance of such condition would save the illegal Immigrants from threatened expulsion and permit them to engage in farm labor and nation¬ al defense industries but not,in trades or professions;
Representatives of labor, so¬ cial: and political organizations, meeting in conference, resolved to urge the French Government to modify the position of- for¬ eigners with a view tb hasten¬ ing their asSiriiilation and acqui¬ sition of French citizenship. The questiph of' refugees and ordinary immigrants resulted in the adoption of a resolution ask¬ ing the Government tb consider a measure which wovild better define the rights and obligations If Immigrants and the possiblH- ties of rapid naturalization than the present alien regulations, which do. not, completely .define the rights and obligations .. of those wlio do not intend to re¬ turn to their native lands.
It was pointed out by repre¬ sentatives of Jewish organiza¬ tions participating in the con¬ ference that France was profit¬ ing from the resourcefulness of Jewish immigrants who had de Veloped many new industries such as textile, rubber, sugar, clothing and fur. They urged that alien regulations be modi¬ fied to permit refugees to prac¬ tice those trades from which they have hitherto been barred.
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Se^s Coughlin As Intolerant Of American Tolerance
DETROIT (WNS)—Speaking at the Naval Armory here on "Hitler Over America—Expos¬ ing the Propagandists Who Are Undermining Democracy," Rev. Walton E. Cole of Toledo scored the forces of intolerance and Coughilnism, declaring that "It is easy to confuse the issue raised in this controversy be¬ tween Coughiln arid young Roosevelt." Dr. Cole sal^ the real issue was Coughlin's intol¬ erance against the ' American Way of tolerance and good-will, ahd that "Coughlin's clumsy at¬ tempts to unsay his anti-Jewish utterances by verbal Sword- swallowing is a transparent trick that will fool no one who has read "Social Justice" articles. Again Father Coughlin piroves that he can hand it out but he can't take it," said Dr. Cole,
Seek To Stop Nazi Propaganda In II:S. - List Includes Coughlin's Name
NEW YORK (WNS)—Secre¬ tary of State Cordell Hull has a.slced L. M. Blrkliead, National Director of Friends of Demo¬ cracy, Inc., to furnish the State Department with a list of per¬ sons and agencies in tlio Uni¬ ted Slates believed to be engag¬ ed in disseminating propaganda
Jewish Ex-Soldiers Conscripted for cts
.lobvpli     Boronstciii JOSEPH    BORENSTEIN,    a-
bove, the paralyzed Chicago youngster, who is the new Grand Aleph Godol (president) of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the jun¬ ior B'nai B'rith.
A .victim of infantile paralysis, Borenstein is one of the most active A, Z.:A. membeirs despite the fact tiiat he has to get around on cruliches. He re¬ cently undeirwent an operation which; It is hoped, may enable hiin to walk without the aid of crutches. ; Twenty years old, lie is a member of Deborah Chapter, Chicago, and a student In the Northwestern University school of Commerce:
LONDON (WNS)—A late dis. patch from Prague reported that Gestapo, has placed Dr. Stahlecker, comm a n d e r of Reichsprotector: von Neurath's special police, in charge of the ne-nHy created Central Emigra¬ tion Office in the "Protectorate" of Bohemia-Moravia.
Information from Bratislava revealed 500    Jewish    soldiers
emanating froin official sources In Nazi Germany, it was dis¬ closed; Among the . names given to the State Department by Dr. Birkhead is Father Charles E. Coughlin radio priest of Royal Oak, Michigan.
Others listed by Dr. Birkhead as distributors of Nazi propa¬ ganda Include: Fritz Kuhn of the German-American Bund; Rev. Gerald B; Winrod, Wichita, Kansas; ;Tames True, Washing¬ ton, D.C.; Dr: Paul M, Winter, Shavertown, Pa.; H. D., Kissing¬ er, Kansas City, Mo.; Harry A. Jung, Chicago, 111, Mr. Birk¬ head also requested that they be required by the State De¬ partment to register linder the Act of June '8, 1938 as persons "engaged in the dissemination of propaganda material on be¬ half of a foreign government."
Tile State Department's rer quest was in Response to a re¬ cent letter from . Mr. Birkhead attacking the German Govern¬ ment for sponsoring a propa¬ ganda campaign here, which, ho said, assails ovir traditions of liberty and democracy, attacks
and  Officers   recently  expelled
from the Slovakian army were oS^'publi? oflicraTs"""'including
ordered.on   road   construction President Roosevelt and which
UNVEILING
Airs. Iiena Pass An unveiling of a monument in memory of Mrs. Lena Pass win be held this Sunday, July 30, at 11 a. m., at the Beth Jacob Cemetery. Rabbi L. Green¬ wald wilt officiate.' Friends and relatives are invited.
Will Test Decree Forbidding Race Agitation ;
PARIS (WNS)—The first trial under the recent decree forbidding ahti-Semitic agitation or campaigns in the press was ordered by; a magistrate after investigating charges against Louis Darquler de Pellepoix,' a Paris Municipal Councilor and director of the anti-Semitic France Enchalnee. The ease will be heard under the decree law which forbids publication of matter intended to incite race hatred against any group of citizens. '
French newspapers charged that Germany Is keeping up a constant flow of anti-Semitic propaganda material into Al¬ sace-Lorraine aimed at combat¬ ting recent decrees Issued by the French Government which forbid anti-Semitic agitation. It is said that letters addressed to French citizens In the territory contain anti-Jewish caricatures and leaflets.
RADIO PRIEBT REFUSES TO ANSWER CHARGES
NEW YORK (WNS)—In a telegram to the Mutual Broad¬ casting System, the Rev. Char¬ les }3, Coughlin declined "with regret" an offer made by Elliott Roosevelt to reply to chai-ges made by the President's son that Coughlin was an anti-Sem¬ ite land a "composer ot stories" The "radio priest" declared his reply to Roosevelt would be read by the Rev, E. L. Curran, of Brooklyn, on his regular Sun¬ day hour.
jobs and other public Works at Rehcln, Neusohi and Presov. It Is reported that the ex-soldiers, formed into three labor groups, are subjected tb ill treatment and forced to exist on starva¬ tion ration.
constitutes a continuous act ot unfriendliness to the people of Oui" country."      In his answer to  the ' State    Department Mr. \ Birlihead repeated his demand that Secretary HUH "make ap- Iprbpriate-   representations     to '   J'ews   were   blamed   for   the j the German Ambassador against economic    ills of SlbvaWa;iahd j the Continued dis3eialnatloir~ot for the failure of the  govern- sUch propaganda, ment to raise a loan for relief.     Tn pressing his demand Birk-
These accusations were being aired at a. session of tlie Slovak Cabinet, ^'"'Ing which Propa¬ ganda Minister Sana Mach re¬ ported to the Cabinet that Jews had boycotted the loan, intend¬ ed to be used to purchase food for needy Slovakians, and that "the Jews -will have to bear the consequences ot the boycott In¬ sofar as the Governmeiit, after this experience, will have So carry out further cleansing measures against S1 ov a k Jewry." ,     .
A "boycott by international Jewry" was advanced by Mach as the reason for the "Catas¬ trophic position" ot Slovakia's nine spas although Jews are prohibited from .visiting the watering places.
PRAGUE . (WNS)—'The Bohe¬ mian-Moravian government or¬ dered Jews to file a declaration of all their valuables and house¬ hold affects, including wedding rings.
Praise B'nal B'rith Head For Firm Stand
NEW VORK (WNS—"No Jew true to his faith, to his tradi¬ tions and to his history will ever subscribe to any program calculated to create friction or division between the varioiis groups of our great American citizenship," declared Henry Monsky, president of the nation¬ al fraternal organization B'nai B'rith, at a convention ot' the lodge held In Detroit. Mr; Monslcy pointed out that B'nal B'rith, as most other major national Jewish organizations "has^repeatedly declared against condemned and carried on the fight against and opposition to all political ideologies such as Communism, Fascism and Na¬ zism, any statement to the con¬ trary notwithstanding."
head stated that thS registra¬ tion of propaganda agents is of secondary importance, and that what is necessary is a complete "cessation Of such propaganda at its source;"
"We feel justified," Mr. Birk¬ head said, "in stating that the full responsibility of the con¬ tinued dissemination of this propaganda in our country rests with the present government of Nazi Germany." He said the publications employed were of official German agencies, frei quently consisting of ¦ speeches and articles' of High Nazi offi¬ cialdom especially written for American consumption. He charged that the material is shipped to this country on Ger¬ man . vessels under the strict supervision of the Nazi Govern¬ ment. Mr. Birkhead also list¬ ed eight official German agen¬ cies whose propaganda is being circulated in the United States, often mailed direct to individ¬ uals in the United States from places in Germany. .
Dr. Birkhead's letter to Jos¬ eph C. Green, Chief,.Division ot Controls, Department ot State, made particular reference to tlie "propaganda issued by the fol¬ lowing official agencies of the present' Government ot Nazi Germany: World Service, Ehr- furt, Germany; Flchte Bund, Hamburg, Germany; German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin; League of Germans Abroad, operating from- Stutt¬ gart and Berlin; Julius Strelch¬ er, Nuremberg,, Germany; Uni¬ versal Racial Alliance, c-o Ju- denkenner, Berlin; League ot Gennan Antl-Comlntern Associa¬ tion, Berlin; Neues Volk, Leip¬ zig, Germany. The printed ma¬ terial ot these organizations and other official German agencies is often mailed direct from places in Germany to Individ¬ uals throughout the United States."
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