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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOE THE JEWISH HOME
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Volume XVII—No, 238
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 15, 193S
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By PHINEAS J. DIKON
FROM I'HE COIVVENTION Z0A-NJ3
Morris Margulica qualified for the title of tho Jewish Jim Farley bC tho ZOA convention at Dotroit ' Ho predicted that Eabbi Solo¬ mon Goldman would defeat Dr. Israel Goldstein by 100 votes.... Dr. Goldman won by 97 votes.... Joo Brainin made some money on bets on Goldman's election...Most beloved personality at tho conven¬ tion was A. H, Frledland of Cleve¬ land, who enjoyed not only the elec¬ tion of Goldman bnt also the indi¬ rect defeat of Uabbi Abba H. Silver ....Judge Barry Fischer, Hymio Cohen and Al Kosenberg, all of ChicaRO, acted as the general staff for tho Goldman election cam¬ paign When the results   were
announced the trio   wept   actual
tears- They had Icen doubtful
of victory till the last minute..,. That was the second time Solomon Goldman won an election from Israel Goldstein....As classmates in the Jevrish Theological Seminary , Solomon defeated Goldstein for the presidency of the student council ... .Friends of A. .H. Priedland, Cleveland Hebraist, who've been ¦worried about his health, were tickled to see him at the convention ready to do battle for Goldman... Quietest man at the'convention was Hynian M. Cohen, president of Congregation Anshe Bmet of Chi- cago^ of which Goldman is rabbi ....Cohen .is said to hava told friends that he is personally ready to spend $60,000 this yeair to pro- Tide Goldman wilh all necessary means to make his term as ZOA
president a great success It is
understood that the congregation will furnish Goldman with an as¬ sociate rabbi To    Eabbi   Eric
Frledland of Pontiac, Michigan, went the distinction of Jieing of four generations of the same fam¬ ily attending the. convention.... .Present were his ^-eat-grandfather Ben Abraras, grandfather, I. A. Abraras,'of GreeivBay.^Wi^,,- *nd '" Frjedlaiid's -.'fe-year-old     sonj
Jotharo The   Keren   Hayesod
proved its desire to be econoniical by. sending ita message of greet¬ ing to the convention collect.I,. Beat-dressed delegate at the con¬ vention was Meyer W. Weisgal, di¬ rector of the Palestine Pavilion at ths New York Worid'a i Fair 1939  Best-looking girl at the con¬ vention was Mrs. Aviva Polish, the recently married daughter of A. H.
Frledland Whilo the    title    of
youngest-looking mother was won by Washington's Mrs, Sefer. OPEN YOUR EARS
That much-talked-of Jewiah unity received ita first test when Nathaniel Goodrich of the Ameri¬ can Jewish Committee's staff rep¬ resented that organization, tha American Jewish Congress and the Jewish War Veterans in hearings before a committee of the New Sfork State Constitutional Conven¬ tion, ,, .July 15th will be an im¬ portant date in tlie controversy be¬ tween the Jersey City Jewiah Com¬ munity Center and Congiogation Emanu-El.. .The alieii-baiters who are howling against admitting German and   Austrian   refugees
don't know their hiatory In the
records of the General Land Office in Chicago there's a dust-laden . volume revealing that in 1834 the govemraent offered free land in Illinois and Michigan to 235 refu¬ gees from war-torn Poland.... The personnel of the World Youth Congress to be held at Vassar Col¬ lege in August opens some intrigu¬ ing possibilities Among the del¬ egates will bo Arabs and Jews fro'ra Palestine, C?ech Nazis nnd "Jewish refugees from Austria and members of the youth division of n British Pascist party....Ben Wigdoer, star reporter of tho De¬ troit News, told us that he knows a synagogue in Jesus Maria Street, Havana....A letter-writer to the New Vork World-Telegram by the name of M. M. Foster proposed the creation of a fund to be used to underwrite bonds for German and Austrian refugees who have i friends or kinfolk in this country..
NAT-ZI HOT STUFF
Wc Jiist fired one of our agents for giving us a bum steer oii that item a few columns ago qbout a powuw of Jew-buiters supposed to lii'.vc been held at the Jewish-owned EdisoiV Hotel in Now York... .We have since learned that no such meeting was either scheduled or held in that hotel,.. ,Our apologies to the management... .Don't be surprised If Fritz Kuhn, number one Nazi hereabouts, does a sudden (Continued on page S)
Dug to tho absence from tho city of a largo number of piospectivo coi.trihutors to thc annual United Jewish Fund Campaign and with over 125 subscription caidq yet to bo   heard  from,   chairmen   E.   J.
yot given, send their volur.tary offerings at once, even if they are not approached by solicitors, thero is the possibility of failure of this years effort. Mr. Schanfarber is therefore ap-
Schanfnihor and Simon Lazarus j pealing to every sclf-rcspecling hnvo extended the drive for another 1 Jew of our community to con- wcok i« order to reach this year's tribute hin share towards the quota for $52,500. Up to press time \ United Jowish Fund agencies which approximately $47,000 has Been i aro protecting tbo Jew in his right pledged with $5,500 still needed to to live, not only in Germany, Aus- reach tho goal. tria, Poland and Rumania, but hero
What has been of grea. encour-] in America as well! agement   and   inspiration  to   the i    And thus it shall come to pass volunteer workers this   year,   ac- that in' fulfillment of the acripturr cording   to   Mr.   Schanfarber, has al promise 'out of the old fields'
been tho intense ifitercBt and tho desire on the part of our Jewishi citizenry to participate in the campaign. Mr. Schanfarber point¬ ed out this week that the drive will not bo officially closed until every prospect has been accounl!ed for.
The final days in tho campaign will provide a real test of com¬ munity responsibility. Unless many contributors will increase their subscriptions over last year, and unless many of those who have not
shall come a new coj'n.' Out of tho barbarous days in which they now Iivo shall come forth a stronger and prouder people—a people of undying faith—and thig shall be be¬ cause of your help and the help of the Jews of the world in this hour of agony.
Contributions may bo sent direct to "The United Jewish Fund" 150 B. Broad St., or "Simon Lazarus, Treasurer" c/o F. E. Lazarus Co., Columbus, Ohio,
Ex-Nazi Trooper Testifies Against Bund Leaders
EIVERHEAD, h. I. (WNffi^- Willy Brandt, a former Nazi st^pi trooper and ex-member of tlie <fe- man-American Bund, told a iflrjf^n' Suffolk County Court that Bted members must take an oath" of #1^ legianco to Hitler, when lie took tto stand 03 tho state's star witn(!s»fn its case against six directors of tlo Gorman-Amorican Settlement lA guo, opei'ator of thc Nazi CflJ# Siegfried at Yaphank, who •>& charged with violating the St^ Civil Bights Law. The first IJI days of tho trial wore marked » frequent clashes between counEjl for the defense and Aasistint DiBJ trict Attorney Lindsay E. Hentf and between defense counsel an# Brandt. The defense counsel trlfi'8 vainly to Shake Brandt's credibiliti;. A motion by-defense counsel for a directed verdict of not guilty ot» the ground the atata ha'd neithe^ established   the   existence   of
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Partial View of Bellcfaire Campus (Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home)
Bellefairc, the Cleveland Jewish'represents that body on the board
Orphan Home, will be the scene of a; dual cclebifltipn .on^ July 22,- 28, "aiiS'Si', \vhcn the fiftieth anniver¬ sary of the founding of the Alumni association 'and the seventieth birthday of the institution will be marked. It is expected that several hundred • alumni from every part of the country and many dis- tin'guished members of the board of trustees and directors will be on hand for the three day period of festivity.
The first Cleveland Jewish Orphan home was f9rmaUy dedi¬ cated by its founders, members of District Grand Lodges Nos. 2 and 6 of tho fraternal older of B'nsii B'rith on July 14, 1888. At the twentieth anniversary of this occa; sion in July, 1888, the second of the three building developments of the "Home" w^ dedicated and the Alumni Association was organized. Tho importance of the relationship between the Alumni group and the Home was demonstrated in" 1929 when Bollefaire, the third and most recent of tho "Homes" was opened anci the recreation building, gift of the Alumni, was dedicated as Alumni Hall.
Bellefaire is supported by com¬ munities located throughout the Middlewest and by a portion of each B'nai B'rith member's dues, in this territory. Almost 5000 orphaned ov dependent childien from thia section of the country have Tjeen admitted to the homo durin'g the past three score and ten years of its existence. Since 1922 ifs superintendent has been Michael Sharlitt while since 1926 the presi-' dont has been Fred Lazarus, Jr, of Columbus, Ohio.
baring this period tbe Home has pioneered in' mony phoses of child care. The introduction of manual training and organized competitive athletics, tlie abolishment of uni¬ forms and tho initiation of psychi- utrio service and a apecial vocation¬ al guidance program are only a few of the more Important milestones in its development us one of the outstandii.'j}* homes of its kind in tha country.
In addition its pliyslcal develop¬ ment has kept pace with tho times. Located in one of Cleveland's most beautiful suburbs its thirly-ono acres allow, ample room for ath¬ letic fields. The buildings,, which wero designed by Joseph Weii,'- berg, graduate of the Home, include ten duplex cottages for boys and girls, a chapel, gymnasium, audi-' torlum, swimming pool and hos^ pital.
During the past fifty years the Alumni aasociatlon has kept in close coiitact with the Home. The preaiderit of the UBSQciatioii', Ed- ivai'd S. Klein of Cleveland, Ohio,
and at present there are six gradu¬ ates seiMng aB ^direotors' M the" Home and one is "trustee elected by the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith,
^his year, the association, which numbers 1300 groduates on its mailing list, cUmiixed its annual fund raising effort by a donor din¬ ner which netted $5000 for the Golden anniversary contribution to the support of the home. In addi¬ tion, the dues paid by the'Alumni support a Scholarship Fund, a graduate loan fund which provides small emergency loans to gradu¬ ates, and the Alumni Bulletin.
Because a SOth anniversary is considered more important than a 70th, the three day celebration has been planned especially for the Alumni Association. The opening event will take place Fjiiday even¬ ing, July 22, in Alumni Hall where an Old Home Days progiam of re¬ miniscence will be presented among other things. Thero will be an original three act presentation' of "Playroom Days" and a choius of twenty graduates singing qld time Jewish Orphan Home songs.
Saturday morning, following ser¬ vices In' the Bellefaire chapel, out of town guests will be entertained at luncheon in the various cottages on the campus. In the after¬ noon there will be a gala per¬ formance of the Bellefaire chil¬ dren's annual operetta, ''The Jolly Buccaneers."
Ii.formal supper will bo served in the Hotel Hollenden coffee shop and tho day's events will reach thoir climax in an informal dance in the Hotel Hollenden' ballroom.
Sunday morning's activities will include informal games, the annual meeting of the tiustees and direc¬ tors and the annual luncheon ot Fenway Hall. In tho afternoon there will be the regular homecom¬ ing ball gamea to be followed by the Annual Lawn Fote with music by the Belief ail e Band of 40 pieces. Tho celebration will be con¬ cluded with the annual supper and meeting of the Alumni Association at Alumni Hall.
The occasion ia being made espe¬ cially noteworthy by the publica¬ tion' of the Fifty-Book, a souvenir program of the annivcrsaiy which will contain seveial bundled hither¬ to unpublislied photogrophs from the earlleat years of the- Home down to the present. •
Besides Fred La'/avus, president of Bellefaire, Alfred A. Benesch, director of commerce, state, of Ohio, and Attorney E. J. Schan¬ farber aro members of the board of directors of the Home. Stanley Engel and Alex Brown', students at Ohio State Univeraity, aro presi¬ dent nnd secretary, respectively, of the Alumni chapter in Columbua,
secret oath nor proved the connect' tion of any but two of the defend* ants with the camp, "WJia deified h^ Judge L. Barren Kill.' The atat^ seeks to prove thftt nnly Bund members can enroll in the camg, that members of the Bund are re¬ quired to take an oath and that the Nazis in this country have the same prejudices and hatred against a certain race as they do in Geir- niany." If this is proved all Bund members are subject to prosecu¬ tion, ^ ^ Under direct examination Brftr.'dt testified that-when he' joined the Bund last May he had to take an oath of fealty to Hitler. Ho ^Iso gave details of Storm Troop kill¬ ings in Germany ond asserted that the Bund oath and the storm troop'- ers' oath were identical. He accus¬ ed the Nazis in Gerroony of having' "crnshed the people down" and ol "havini taken their freedom, ; that ia not the idea of a' human ih'g." Ernst Mueller, president tho Settlement Leogne, and.^jSJS^ HaUcfc,'Simp director, were several times warned by the court to mod¬ erate their tone of voice after tftey had literally screamed out denials of thc charges againat them. James Wheeler-Hill, national secretary of tho Bund, denied Bun'd members have to .take an oath. Martin Wun- derlich, a probationary member of the Bund, at the judge's order, gave tho Hitler salute, and pre¬ dicted that it would ultimately be¬ come universal in America. . As recited by Brandt, who ad¬ mitted that was not his full Ger¬ man name, which he yanted to keep secret to spare his family in Germany from reprisals, the Bund oath reads: "I pledge my faith to my leader, Adolf Hitler. I promise Adolf Hitler and those put in charge by him and well-known to me, by means of insignias, to be recognized as superiors, loyalty and obedience, ond oblige myself to execute all commands cafefuUy and without personal regsid because I know thot my leader does not ask anything unlawful of me."
BERLIN (WNS)—Tho steadily ahrinking number of callings open to Jews in Germany was further narrowed by a new decree forbid¬ ding Jews or .Tewigh-owncd corpor¬ ations to engage in eight different occupations. After ' August 6th Jews are barred from acting as marriage brokers or tourist guides unless tho contracting parts are Jews or of mixed blood; ped- llng is forbidden to Jewa after September 3Dth when licenses of all Jewish peddlers expire; on October ,Cth Jews will be forbid¬ den to serve as private detectives or investigating agents and will "not bo allowed to conduct informa¬ tion bureaus on financial or per¬ sonal matters; trading in real es¬ tate or acting as bi-'okcrs f9r real estate contracts or loans or managers of houses, estates lands is forbidden to Jows after January 1, 1989. At the same time the ministry of the interior ruled that foreign Jews visiting hi^alth resorts and public baths must be segregated by issuing to them special colored entrance carda.
Meanwhile, buying from Jews or having any social intercourse with Jews were made valid reasons for divorce in Germany in a new mar¬ riage and divorce law proclaimed by Chancellor Hitler. Jews are not irtentioned in the law but one of tho reasons for divorce is "dis¬ honorable and indecent conduct," which is broad enough to include buying from Jews. The low for¬ bids marriages in violation of the Nuremberg racial laws and brands as illegitimate, children of racially mixed marriages "because they do not deserve apecial protection."
Kaufman Is Hamed Temporary Chairman By Jewish Big Four
NEW YORK (WNS)—Meeting for the first time since the adop¬ tion of tho Pittsburgh resolution authorizing the creation of an or¬ ganization to coordinate their ac¬ tivities relating to tho safeguard¬ ing of equal rights of Jews, repre-
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^Simple Funeral Services Held For ^tiee Cardozo
Pres,   Roose'yelt   Names
Kalodner to Federal
Court
WASHINGTON, P. C, (WNS)— Two Jows received important Fed- eral appointments when President Eoosevelt nominated Harry E. Kal¬ odner of Philadelphia as U. S. Dis- tiict Court Judge for the Eastern District of Philadelphia and named Lewis Bloch, San Francisco indus¬ trialist and economist, one of the thi;ee members of the ne\tr Mari¬ time Labor Board. Kalodner, who is 4,2 and a native of Philadelphia, is a former newspapeiinan. He was secretary to Governor Georgo H. Earle and later become state sec¬ retary of revenue. In 1936 he was' appointed judge of tho court of common pleas. Bloch ia 63 and a native of California, po is vice- chairman of the Pacific Coast Eco¬ nomic Conference and chairman of the board of the Crown Zellerbach Gorroratlon.
PORT CHESTEE, N. Y. (WNS) —Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, jus¬ tice of the United States Supreme Cojirt since "1932, the second Jew to attain that high office; was car¬ ried to his final resting place in the Cardozo family plot at' Cypress Hills Cemetery, Long Island, after private and almost austerely brief funeral services at the estate of Juatice Irving H. Lehman of the New York Supreme Court, where the noted jurist passed'away at the age of 68 following a seven month's illness. Babbi D. A. Jessnrun Car¬ dozo, no relative of tho Juatice, who is associate minister of the Spanish Portuguese Congregation, the oldest in Americo, and to which Cardozo and his family al¬ ways belonged, officiated in the presence of a small company of relatives and intimate friends. Among-those present were Mrs. Franklin D. Eoosevelt, Mayor La Guardia and three of Cardozo's colleagues of the Supreme Court. Taken ill with a heart attack on Decetnber 13th, he recuperated sufficiently to be moved from Washington to the Lehman estate whero he appeared to be making a alow recovery until he suffered a _relapse in June. It was under¬ stood that even if he had recovered he intended to resign from the bench at tho fall term of the Su¬ preme Court.
Roosevelt Mourns Cardozo
President Eoosevelt led the' na¬ tion in" paying tribute to Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo with a state¬ ment declaring that "the news of the passing of- justice Cardozo came to me as a great personal shock. Years ago, \vhen he was Chief Justice of the high court of New York, I learned to admire him nnd toi love him. He had a great soul. The whole nation has lost If constant friend."
Edgar J. Kaufman
sentatives of the American Jew¬ ish Congress, American Jewish Committee, B'nai Brith and Jew¬ ish Labor Committee convened here on July 7th and elected Edgar J, Kaufman of' Pittsburgli, prime mover in the unity meeting, tem¬ porary chairman. The meeting also discussed an organization plan, ap¬ pointed various committees and de¬ cided to hold a report meeting on August 1st, The meeting also sent the following message to My¬ ron C. Taylor, head of the Ameri¬ can, delegation to the irttergovern- mentol refugee conference at Evian-les-Bains, France: "Tho American Jewish Committee, The American Jewish Congress, the B'nai Brith and the Jewish Labor Committee, at a joint meeting of representatives of their respective .OreanizataonB'.lieia in New York on July 7th,.take notice of the inter¬ governmental conference now heing held at Eviau-les-Bains, Prance, and wish it success in finding an eifective and speedy solution of the refugee problem, in which the. whole civilized world is deeply concerned." ^
Attending the meeting were: JEWISII LABOR COMMITTEE— Joseph Baskin, Isaiah Minkoff and B. Charney Vladeck; AMERICAN JEWISH CONGEESS—Louis Se- Dr. Jerome Michael, Louis Lipsky and Max Silverstcin; B'NAI BEITH-^E. J. Schanfarber, Louis Fabricant, Henry Monsky, Sigmund Livingston and Maurice Bisgyerj AMERICAN JEWISH COMMIT¬ TEE—Lewish L. Strauss, Morris D. Waldman, Henry Ittelson, Carl J. Austrian, Sol Stroock, Judge Sam¬ uel Eosenraan and Samuel Lied- esdorf.
Entire  Jewish   Community Ordered To Leove By Sept.
VIENNA (WNS)—'l>e entire Jewish community of Linz, num¬ bering 600 souls, haa been ordered to leave by September lat. Linz is the ahrlr.'e. of Austrian Naidam. Unless the 600 Jews can gain ad¬ mittance to some other -. country they are doomed to the same fate ai^ befell many of the Jews of "Bur¬ genland who were shunted back and forth between Chechoslovakia and Hungary
Florence Installs New
Kablji In Full Fascist
Uniform
ROME (WNS)_A rabbi appear¬ ed iij a synagogue pulpit in full Faacibt uniform for the first time in Itolian history when' Rabbi Kal- man Fcldnian of Poland war form¬ ally installed as chief rabbi of Flor¬ ence. Eabbi Feldman devoted tho bulk of his intioductory sermon to praising Mussolini and to lauding the heroism of the Italian legions in Ethiopia and Spoin. Attending tho services weio tho governor of Florence, the secretary of the local
Secret German Radio Station Fights Nazi Anti-Semitism
BERLIN (WNS)—The German li r; d crground "Liberty Station," broadcasting from o secret location "ivithin the Reich, has appealed to German workers not to allow themselves "to be misused by par¬ ticipating in the shameful out¬ rages against iho Jews, instigat¬ ed by the Nazi racketeers." The broadcast said the renewed anti- Jewish drive was intended "to stupify" the German people tod "to cover up their own sins of cor¬ ruption, war-mongery and base¬ ness" and declared that "to oppose the barbarism of Jew-lialting means to "fight against National Socialism; means to educate the stupified; medns to cleanse the German name which is now .^be- amirchcd before the world. Show your solidarity with the Jews, just as everybody hpa to stand In solid¬ arity with the victims o£ National Socialism. Don't tolerate o condi¬ tion where honest Jewish men,'wo¬ men and children are treated like dogs. Remember there is justice in history. As we treat people today, ao ahall we be treated when the day of reckoning comes. When' the Ijazis state thot we hove to take everything away from the Jews in the intereat of Germany, don't be decided—don't fall for that trickery. Whot is taken away from the Jews goes directly into the pockets of brown ahlit profilecra oi.d lacketeeis, the Aiyan inillion- aires and exploitci's." Tho broad¬ cast  concluded  by saying "down
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (WNS) — The intergovemmontal refugee conference movod into thrco days of executive session Tucsdoy (July llth) in prepara¬ tion for adjournment on Friday (July 15th) after hearing Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua ond Hon¬ duras pledge themselves to admit their share of refugees if other countries did likewise. Meanwhile, tho conference was stirred by a rumor as yet unconfirmed that Germany had let it be known she was ready to permit emigrants to take 109o of tho value of their property with them on condition that tho conference worked out a progi'om for getting all Jews out of Germany ond Auatria within fivo' years. At the some time the American and British delegations agreed to meet with a Germar.'- Jewish delegation headed by Otto Hirsch that preaented a memoran¬ dum urging that provision be made for the emigration of 200,000 Jews from Germany In aix years and tho creation of o special clearing bank to facilitate the transfer of Jewish funds from the Reich.
Creation of a permanent inter¬ national refugee aid commission' in¬ dependent of the existing League of Nations agencies and with head¬ quarters in London' and branches in other European citiea loomed as the probable chief contribution of the intergovernmental refugees conference to the solution of tho refugee problem. A tentative agree¬ ment on such a program was le-' ported to have been reached be¬ tween ths United States and Great Britain with final action' being de¬ layed because of British opposition to the American proposal that the international commission be em¬ powered to deal with all refugees wherever they 'come. The British and French are imisting on re¬ stricting the commission's field ex¬ clusively to German and Austrian refugees and are also anxious to subordinate it to the League of Na¬ tions. Under the American plan the commission would have its own ad¬ ministrative and technical staff and director, with James G. McDonald, former League High Commissioner for German Refugees, regarded as the logical choice.
Meanwhile, spokesmen for ten more countries and Sir Neil Mal¬ colm, present League High Com¬ missioner, were heord by the con¬ ference at its third public session. Mexico agreed to furnish "asylum to foreigners who aro afraid for their lives" and promised them "op¬ portunities for work.' The Domii.'i- can Eepublic announced that it had opportunities for both agricultural and professional "men and pledged to provide techifical aid and seed. Ecuador and Peru bolh stated they could admit only farmers but want¬ ed no intellectuals or traders. The
Colombian and Venezuelan dele¬ gates said their countries had limited possibilities for absorbir.'g immigrants and preferred "farm workers. Uruguay's spokesman said his country would accept only tho hind of immigration that could be assimilated with ita rural popula¬ tion while the Chilean delegato de¬ clared his country was willing to aid nny action undertaken by tho conference within tho framework of ita existing immigration legisla¬ tion. H^ deemed it "not prudent ond contrary to the interests of Chile^s dwr; workers," however, to permit tho amount of ita labor supply to bo increased without firat being assured of a market for the resulting increase in production. Denmark's delegate informed the conference sho nob only could not accept more refugees but would like to have some Gorman refugees already settled within her borders taken off heir hands. New 'Zealand was equally discoume^np.
In "view of the fact that none of the participatiii'g countries except the Dominican Eepublic have agreed to anything like mass col¬ onization, considerablo significance was attached to tho statement of High Commissionjer Malcolm. He told the conference that Ws survey of the situation indicated that under present unemployment con¬ ditions any large scale scheme of emigration anywhere would oidy arouse hostility in countries where there is now no anti-Jewish feel¬ ing. Sir Neil urged that the best thing the conference could do would be to help private agetieien caring for refugees to facilitate immigra¬ tion by providing thom with gov¬ ernment loans. He recommended thnt the refugees be sent to var¬ ious countries as' individuals in¬ stead of en' masse. Malcolp esti¬ mated it would cost $6,000 to settle a family, ori- land.' The Ammcali delegates told thdt conference that- tho United States had no intention of modifying its immigration ' quotas but nnder the existin'ir quotas would admit 27,060 refugees fi;om Germany and Auatria durin'g the coming year. President Roose¬ velt, who called the conference, sent o cable in which ho aaid "I hope for all success to the Committee in its work, which is of such importance for a large port of humanity rvow plunged into despair."
A sub-committee of the confer¬ ence appointed to deal with repre¬ sentatives of private relief agencies granted brief hearings to spokes¬ men for the Joint Distribution Committee, tho World Jewish Con¬ gress,' the League of Nations Union, Catholic committees in tho United States,. England, France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland; the Council for German Jewry, the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Quakers,
Show 96,948 Votes In Congress Elections
NEW YOEIC (WNS)—Publica¬ tion of the returns from the Ameri¬ can Je\t'ish Congress' election of 400 delegates to a special session to bo held in' New "York in Sep¬ tember was due tbis weekend. Three hundred tellers have been working since the polls closed on Juno 27th to complete the count of votes and registration. A prelim¬ inary checkup by the Seven' Arts Feature Syndicate on the basis of reports appearing in the English- Jewish press indicates that 96,948 votes were cast in 23 cities where the total registration was 19.7,000. In these cities 110 delegates were elected. In 11 other cities In' which no returns hove aa yet been pub¬ lished, 57 -delegates were elected. None of these figures include New York City.
An Appeal
Fascist  party  and  tho   Cardin'dl
Archblehop of the city as well as I with the brown shirt pestilence of
Jewish dignitaries, ' Jew-baiting.'
Urges Democracies To Resist  Intolerance
LONDON (WNS)—Declaring that democ'iaeies must be alert against signs of intolerance, United States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy urged sympathy for the task of the international refu¬ gee confeience in an* address at Winchester whole he dedicated a cathedral window as au American memorial to the lute- King George V. Pleading thot democraciea re¬ sist "intolerance such as is abioad in ao much of the world," the American envoy said "certain na¬ tions have attempted to relieve the suffering of some of their people at the expense of other of their I Charlies W. W»icjt, Tfc. D.i
inhabitants.
To The Leaders And -Members
Of American Church And
Synagogues
Have our hearts turned to stone or are they still capable of human feeling? jjoro than lO.OOO chil¬ dren have been killed and more than 16,000 wounded ia aerial bombings of open cities in Spain. OM one day. May 31, itt the little lown of Granollera, 600 were, killed or maimed. Most of the victims' wera women and children.
Our Secretary of State has pub¬ licly expreased hia condemnation of thia kind of warfare. England and Erance hove lodged protests with General Franco. Throe times the 'Vatican has pleaded for a ces¬ sation of the bombings. The bomb¬ ings continue.
We believe that tha voice of tho people ia more potent than any official gesture. We, therefore, call upon people of 'every faith to join with us in observing Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17, aa days of solemn protest against aerial bombings of defenseieaa civilians. And wo espfcially invite' tho clergy of every faith to appeal to the conscience of tho world against ruthless and unnecessary destruction of life.
Signed: Bishop James C. Baker, Et. Kev, Benjamin Brewster, Rev, Huinuel McCrea Cay^rt, D- D., Bishop Motthew W. Clair, KabW Henry Cohen, Rev, Charlea W, Gilltcy, », D., Ht. Kev. G, Asbton Oldham, Et. Hev. Robtrt L. Pad¬ dock, Hav. Guy Emery Sblpkr, Rabbi Abba IliHel §\lvet, lEtev. Rabhi
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I Stephsn g. Wise.
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