Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-09-22

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Volume IB.   No. .3!)
Serving Columbus and Ceniral Ohio Jewish Communiiy \/A\K
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, SKPTEMnEB 32, 1939
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Bvorywhoro By PHINIBAS J. BIRON
ACKNOWLEHGMBNT
Today's mail brought us our be.'it New Year present. . . Ber¬ nard Postal, who is surpassed only by oursclt in knowledge ot the lowdown on the Jewish scene, sent us a really sweet letter. . . "Dear Phlneas," writes nernard, "this is the season when all good Jews purge their consciences and try to atone for their sins. . . You have much to answer for. . . I think it is a great mitzvah to give you a chance to repent the rriany, many things that must be bui-dening your conscience, it any. , . So take a week off, and give your eager readers the enclosed col¬ umn, which is so good that you shouldn't he surprised it your editors get the idea ol making your vacation perma¬ nent", . . So hero, dear readers, is Mr. Postal's masterpiece. . . WAR AVORDS
We don't profess to be the seventh son ot a seventh son, but npw that war i.s a- fact a couple of safe predictions can be risked. . . So here goes. . . Os¬ wald Mosley's English Fascists will disappear before many a day, either voluntarily or by official action. . The German- American Bund will also do a vanishing act. . . The retugee problem will remain at status ,quo, with the anti-Nazi erolgi-es - in England, France and Poland battling for a, chance to take a poke at tho Nazis. . . A new Jewish legion, one that will make the 191S-18 one look like a Boy Scout troop, will bo or¬ ganized. . . The Nazis will miss those Jewish scientists whom they booted out of HItlerland. Many ot them contrived plenty of useful gadgets and formulas In the last war. , . Anti-Semitism will go into a decline every¬ where, since it is synonymous with Nazism, now a much-hated term. . , Britain will soon say "thank you" to the Jews, tor having built up Palestine indus¬ try and tor having developed (he Tol Aviv port and airport. . . Dr. Chaim Welzmann's chemi¬ cal wizardry, which in 1914-18 did much to save England, will again be put at Britain's dis¬ posal. . . And your columnist's book on the history of the Jew as a .soldier will havo to be de¬ layed until after this war Is over. . . In the last war over 1 -500,000 Jews fought In all the armies and about 10 per cent of them were killed. . . Judging from tho number already fight¬ ing with the Polish, French and British forces, and fcoon to be serving with the Canadian, Au siralian and New Zealand troops, the world war figure will be heavily surpassed. . . liUMORiaD AISUOAD
The Karaite community at Ilallch,'Eastern Gallcia, a Jew¬ ish sect long separated from the main body of Judaism, has gone anti-Semitic and Is harry¬ ing its Jewish neighborhoods. . , The Revisionist daily in Pales¬ tine, Ha"inashUit, recently re¬ ported that the police searched the "Jabotinsky Research In¬ stitute" in Tel Aviv. . . Maybe you know what that is, but we don't. . , In Northern Palestine Arabs opposed to Arab terrlor- isiB have organized armed groups tor their own protection. . . . The Czech Facsist Party Is seeking to revise the Hilsner hlood ritual trial of tho 1880's in which the victim was detend- (Oontinuoa on I'ago 7>
DoTotca to American nnd SowJnh Idaals
I. D. C/s Statemeiil
InltsClrganizalM ^©r War Imergi
IVEW I'ORK: After a special meeting of its Officers held Sun¬ day, Sept. 17th, the Joint Distri¬ bution Committee issued the fol¬ lowing statement with respect to the overseas situation and its program of assistance:
"Weil in advance of the out¬ break of hostilities, the Joint Distribution Committee took steps to organize its affairs ain-oad in such a way as to be able to render maximum service wherever- the demands might arise. A staff ot American citizens, under the Directorship of Morris C. Troper is therefore available for such activities and in such zones as the situation may require. Plans are well under way to establish .Joint Distribution Committee offices in those neutral countries from which the most ettcctive relief work will be possible.
"Close contact has boen main¬ tained with the Council for Gor¬ man Jewry in London, with the .Jewish Colonization Associa¬ tion, with the Hicem, and with the representatives of the or¬ ganizations through tvhlch the .Joint Distribution - Committee has heretofore operated in the refugee countries—H o 11 a n d, Switzerland, Belgium; In Hun¬ gary and in Italy; and with the relief and philanthropic commit¬ tees in Central Europe.   .
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Father Coughlin Tied Up With Bund Investigator Finds
NlflW YORK (WNS)—Con¬ tending that there is a "tfe-up betweeii F a.t h e r Charles E. Coughlin and the German-Am¬ erican Bund," William A. Muel¬ ler, special investigator for "Look" magazine, revealed that "Father Coughlin tacitly ad¬ mits the partnership by includ¬ ing in his speeches sentences identical to tone and structure with those of Goebbels, Nazi minister of Propaganda, He also quoted sources found in a Nazi propaganda handout called World Service. His Social Jus tice is sold at Bund meetings. Edward B. Fitch, of New York City, member of the Coughlin- hacked Christian Front, admit¬ ted that copies of Coughlin's publication were sold at the Bund's Camp Nordland all last summer."
Thinking the investigator a .sympathizer, William Schmidt, head ot a German importing firm in YorkvillO and an officer in Fritz Kuhn's storm troops, told investigator Mueller that "Father Coughlin and Kuhn are good friends. Kuhn tried to get him to take off his collar ami go Into politics, hut Father Coughlin wouldn't do it. He can't do much because of that collar," Schmidt said.
Mueller also cited Joseph Mc Williams of the Christian Mo bilizers who adinilted his cam¬ paign was Coughlin-inspired and also admitted his Mohillzers were hand-in-glove With foreign groups, "If the time comes for protection," he told the investi¬ gator, "wo can count on tho Bund." McWilliams' meeting in Now York cheer attacks on Roosevelt and applaud Hitler Mueller found.
Churches, Temples Will Observe loyalty Days
NKW YORK (WNS)—Loy¬ alty Days in the Churches, Synagogues and Temples, Sep¬ tember 30 and October 1, take on a deeply patriotic as well as religious significance this year, it was declared by the National Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery, sponsor ot this annual go-to-church move¬ ment.
"Loyalty Days this year should be a call to prayer aiid reconsecration to tho cause of.l World peace, as well as a re¬ affirmation of our respective faiths," said the statement.
President Roosevelt has strongly endorsed observance of Loyalty Days, In a letter sent from the White House to Dr. B, Graham Wilson, chainnan ot the Executive Committee for Religion and Welfare Recovery, the President wrote:
"There never has been a time in our hLstoiy when there was a deeper need for calling our peo¬ ple to faith in religion than the present moment. In the con- temporaiy conflict between na¬ tions and races and their philo¬ sophies of human society, we must keep undimmed our per¬ spective on spiritual values."
The President further wrote:
"I am gratified to learn that the Call is again going forth for the nationwide observance ot Loyally Dayt, by uur' Churches and synagogues, to bring the minds and' hearts of men back to consciousness of the father hood of Gbd, tho brotherhood of man and the sanctions ot relig¬ ion. In services of worship and rededication of these ideals Upon them alone can tho struc¬ ture ot our civilization rest in security and confidence".
In giving out the statement Charles V. Vickrcy, executive chairman,. said: "Loyalty Days are a 'mobilization of the spiri¬ tual foroes' of America to strengthen tho bonds ot world peace and good will as contrast¬ ed with mobilization ot military forces of Europe in Inlerna- tional strife. The more than 10,000,000 soldier.s now mobili¬ zed in Europe are giyen no op¬ tion in answering daily roll-call. ,Just so every church member, who has any sense of loyalty to his religious vows, taken when he joined the church or was con¬ firmed, should recognize the solemn obligation In these days of worldwide stress and peril, to acknowledge in formal church service, as well as in private woi'ship, the fatherhood pf God who 'made ot one blood all na¬ tions of men."
HINT IlIilICII MAY Rl^IiAX ANTI-JEWISH 1MF.ASUUF,S
RIG.!, LATVIA (WNS)—A report appearing in a Swedish newspaper liinted that the RussoGerman bargain provides tor extensive relaxation of anti- Jewish measures in Germany. The newspaper, Nya Dagligt AUenianda of Stockholm, pub¬ lished an interview with a Ger¬ man salesman, who said that large numhei's ot Jews had been released trom concentration camps to work at tasks of mili¬ tary necessity. The German was quoted as saying that cafes were removing anti-Jewish signs and that the German gov- ernirieht was ordering a cessa¬ tion of agitation against wealthy Jews abroad.
Federal CoininiiiiEQtMS Conimission Urged T® Stifle Coughlin Broadcasts
NEW YORK (WNS)—The Friends of Democracy, through L. Birkhead, national director, this week .submitted a memoran¬ dum, containing a series of ehar¬ ges against Rev. Chai,-les B. Coughlin based upon his contin¬ ued abuse of the airways, to tho Federal Communications Com¬ mission, the   National   Associa-
France III love T® 'y Status
PARIS (WNS)—All German- born males between the ages of ¦"¦  and  C5,  including  refugees.
were ordered by French authori¬ ties to report immediately to the registration center to which all Germiin-born persons up to BO were told to report last week. German-born refugees in France face special treatment for their own protection although non- refugee Germans will be Isola¬ ted in concentration camps for the duiration of the war as enemy aliens, according to oE- ticial sources which said that a distinction will be made in the treatment ot German-born retugees and Germans who are' still Reich citizens.
Military authorities are cx- ,nected to mako urp ot the war services of most ot the refugees who have registered qs volun¬ teers and who have clamored for service on tho western front. It was hinted by official sources that the majority of refugee.s. Including 4,.':00 Jews, would probably seo service with tho French Foreign Legion in Af¬ rica. Meanwhile the families of refugees who were ordered to the registration center are be¬ ing provided for by the various refugee welfare committees and it is expected that the authorities will make some pro¬ vision for tho families of those retugees who join the French (Oontinuod on Taffo 4)
tion of Broadcasters and to in¬ dividual radio stations througli¬ out tho Unhed States and Can¬ ada.
The memorandum register.-i its protest against the Rev. Cough¬ lin's use of the nation's ainvay.? for the purpose of inciting to riot and civil war, and stirring up racial prejudice and hatred among the American people.
The document, in its summary, declares that "Father Coughlin has proved himself to be an enemy of democracy, a disciple of Fascism, an advocate ot vio¬ lence and a purveyor ot racial hatred. As such, we believe he has forfeited his-right to buy time from the nation's radio broadcasting stations."
In protesting Father Cough¬ lin's use of the airways. Friends of Democracy does not believe it advocates a limitation of free¬ dom of speech. It does believe, however, that true freedom of speech on the airways can be at¬ tained best by granting free time to reputable speakers tor the pur¬ pose of expounding both sides ot controversial matters.
Members of Friends of Demo¬ cracy urge that provision be made immediately to cancel Fath¬ er Couglin's contracts, or. In the event that is not possible, let It be understood that such con¬ tracts -will not be renewed. Be¬ cause of the fact that the temper nnrt character ol his iadja.Rd.dres- ses are .sucli that they iJifttle hl^' vast audience to physical vio¬ lence and racial hatreds. Father Coughiln has abused the radio as "an Instrument of public ser¬ vice."
DETROIT (WNS)—In view of Canada's declaration of war against Germany, broadca.^ts sponsored by Charles E. Cough¬ lin's Social Justice magazine have been cancelled by radio station CKLW ot Detroit and Windsor, Ont. The announcement, ac¬ cording to informed sources, was issued because the station con¬ sidered the radio priest's broad¬ casts as pro-Gorman.
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Hitler's armies march against Poland and city after city is fall¬ ing into the hands of the Nazi barbarians. The three and a quarter million Jews of Poland are chiefly an urban population Below the reader Will find a table ot 33 Polish cities and their Jewish population. Many ot the.se cities arid towns have al-
REICH INVITES ISXlIiEO PROFESSIONALS RETURN TO GERMANY
ANTWERP (WNS)—Notices are posted at the German Con¬ sulate here inviting doctors, en¬ gineers and technicians "Ot Ger¬ man nationality regardless of race" to return immediately to the Reich. The move was re¬ garded here as an attempt to attract Jewish doctors and other specialists back to Germany dur¬ ing the war when their services would be of value. The posters promised that returning re¬ fugees would bo repatriated and that their confiscated fortunes would be returned. No Jews Iiave accepted the offer to date^ officials said. Thousands of other Germans of military age still remain here and in other Belgian cities,
ready  been  mentioned  in  the news trom the Polish front.
Tho figures are talten from the census of 1931. The Jew¬ ish population in some of these cities lias .since increased. War¬ saw, for example, has now a a Jewish population ot 373,000; Jjodz of 225,000; at Kowice of 8,000.
Per- .Tow-   cont- Gonoral   Uli      aeo ,   Poitu-     l*apu-   of
City latlon     lution Jowa
Warsaw     1,171,808 SXi,bS!> ao.l
Lod?-      C01.C2<> 202,4i)7 33.5
Lwow     ;  312,2.11   09,595 31.9
Posen      21B,.1C7     1,604   0.G
Kruliow  ,;.  219,280   50,515 25.8
Vllnc   . .     195,071   5S,006 28.2
Katowice        126,058     5,710   4.5
C/onstochowa      117,179   25,588 21.0
Lublin         112,285    .18,937 »1.T
Snsnovicu    108,»5!)   20,805 10.1
BialyitoU        91,101   39,105 43.0
nniuloni          77,902   25,159 .ia..!
Stanlslawow        59,9(io   21,823 41.4
Klclfe    ,    58,2,"i6   18,03.131.0
Vloclavck         .55.9G0   10,209 18.3
Plotrkow      51,349   11,400 22.2
ri-zcilissl          51,038   17.326 34.0
Oiodno          49,669   21,159 42.6
Urest   LUowsil        48,385   21,410 41.3
Bcnlzln       47,597   21,025 45.4
Pablanico        45,670     B.357 18.3
Borisow ........,, 41,400   ll,9!lf. 28,0
Rovno        40,612   22,737 50.0
'rumaszow
Mazovleclil          38.020   11.300 29.8
Domlirowo         30,912     5,150 1.1.9
Stcdlce          3«,931   14,7113 40.1-,
'romoBol    ,-.     •'W.644 , 13,999 39.3
Luclt         35,554   17,366 4a.!>
Kolomeya         3.1,788   14.:{:i2 42.4
Ploclc         32.1)98     6.571 19.9
Znwlcico         .TiB73     S.677 17,3
IJl0il0i)yra         32,201   12.931-10.1
Plnsk         31,912   20,220 6:!.4
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