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Volume XVlI—No. 237
GOLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY S, 1938
Per Year .f3.00; Per Copy; 10c
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Kvcrywlicro By PHINEAS J. BIRON
WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE
If you're ono of the many who've been puzzled by what seems to bo a sudden rijshon the part cf cer¬ tain columnists to pooh-pooh the Nazi spy probe by insisting that tho Nazi espionage ring got no secrets of any value, maybe you agree with ua that' it's really in¬ tended, to allay public alarm..,. Dldja know that tho Nazis still have a price ot $6,600 on,the head of Albert Einstein?... .The.heiBht of something or other in political propaganda was achieved by the sponsors of tho malicious rumor that William E. Dodd, Jr.,- whose father was the former ambassador to Germany, ia a Nazi' sympathizer .., .Young Dodd is running , for .^Congress in Virginia, and the ob¬ ject of the rumor is to puthim in bad with the voters. ...He's so much of an anti-Nazi that lie's ' chairman of tho American Com- 'mittee  fot   Antl-Nasi   Literature
 A prominent German, import
and export house in this country is trying hard to find jobs for ' two of its Jewish employees, 'who must be fired because of ¦ orders from Berlin... .Uncle Sam's reve¬ nue agents aro on tho trail of Max
Schmeling's America'ri -income	
The Neu Braunfelser Zeitung, a German language paper published in Neu Braunfcls, Texas, got off the following nifty about tho Nazi organizations in this country: "We in the beautiful South can under no circumstances agree to such crazy organizations in tbe North¬ ern States which approve of un- American Jew persecutions and un- Christian conflicts'"..., JEWISH NEWS
Dr. Henry Englander will re¬ sign as acting registrar of the He¬ brew Union College this Fall.... A layman "Will bo named to fill the -new position of business manager and registrar... i puniest craclt; at ths tteoting of the, Cen.triil.,fiQa.-.. -,.:fiWV(tffe'""of ¦'•^mb'rteili? 'H&bWa" la .credited to Rabti Ijsoac Landman of Brooklyn...Apropos the Louis- Schmeling fight Landman proposed a resolution to maike the Brown Bomber an honorary Falasha.... To which Hartford's witty Abra¬ ham Feldman, as chairman of the resolutions committee, responded in kind by saying that he believed fluch an honor ill-advised, in view of the Home-Berlin axis and thQ fact that the Fal^shas are now Ita¬ lian subjects Young but gray-
baired Eabbi La'sfrence Schwa"rtz cf White Plains brought down tho house with his impromptu revision of an old fish story in answer to words of caution tp the rabbis by Eobert P. Goldman, president of tho Union of American Hebrew Congregations...Paraphrasing tho story in which the Talmudist cuts down the sign "fresh fish here today" to nothing, ending with the punch line "Why say fish? You can smell it all over the place," Schwartz brought a roar of ap- ' proval from the rabbis when he re¬ marked: "Why should I say I re- Bent? Yoii can smell tlie resent-
¦ ment throughout, the room".... Babbi Samuel Schulman again held the convention with his keen qx- tempofaneous oratory and re¬ minded his colleagues; perhaps for tho tenth time, that this might,be tho last time he would be.ahle.to
¦ attend....What used to be , the swanky Club Rlchman in New York Is now the Jewish Philosophers Institute—and Harry .Eichman is chopping about for a new night club to liear his name next season ... .'An aged Jewiah resident from the Bialystoker Homo, going to vote in, tho American Jewish Con¬ gress election last week, whispered to one of the poH workers; "Do those who voto get old age pensions?"	
YOU MUST KNOW
Dr. Philip Joseph, defense gbun- Bol for Shlomo beii Joseph, tho Eosh Pinah youth wjip, was the first Jew to bo executedi in PalesT tine In nineteon centuries,: Is a trothej- of Dr. Bernard Joseph, I counsel for the Jewish Agency, but no ,relation to tho man who
, was executed... .Tho Mosque al 'Aqsa in Jerusalem, Islam's second most sacred shrino, at-tho rear of
, which is the Wailing Wall, is to bo closed shortly for urgCMt, ropaira,
, on tho advice of Britiah and Egyp¬ tian Moslem engineers.., ,Tho ma¬ jor Jewish organizations working In behtflf of refugees aria fari from seeing eye ;to eye on the program thoy would like to have tha In- , ternational refugee conferepce adopt....First English ofgttuiza- tivii to honor Sigiriund Freud, now (Cotttlnued Olt j!«ff« 8).
Somo $42,500 was reported this week by campaign chairmen, E; J. Schanfarber and Simon Lazarus in an effort to raise $152,000, the min- imum goal for this year's United Jowish Fund in Columbus. During tho coming week all solicitors for the.Fund will make every efIort_to raiso ¦ the ,$10,000 still needed in order to go over the-top by next Friday, July JB.
In a statement to tho Chronicle by chairman Schanfarber this week, ho aaid;—
"There is no need at thia time to dwelliipon the disastrous, eco¬ nomic position of Jews in tho var¬ ious distress countriea. ,,Wo' each can, do our ,part to alleviate the tragic lot of the suffprers, and we are ¦ confident that. Columbus will again go over-the top, in itg ready response to the great need of the millions who havo been forced by circumstances to ask for aid."
"By giving, generously to the United Jewish Fiind Campaign-you are aiding in the program of im- me'diato constructive rolief of "the Joint Distribution Committed,' the well constructed plans of the United Palestine Appeal; the pion- eerir.'g work ot the OET; the B'nai B'rith Wider Soope-Anti-Defama- tlon League, Hillel Foundations and some 27 other, worthwhile causes. Your Contribution will aid in the feeding of the thousands, of starving children; will assist or-
phnnogea; will support religious schools; will aid small traders through Free Loan Societies; will givo assistance to emigrants; will provide medical aid; will help young people tako up productive occupations by training in trade schools; will provide equipment and^ necessary machinery to 'employ many Jews now unemployed in the distress countries and in Palestinp. A stupendous task confronts the Jewis throughout the nations enjoin¬ ing, peace and. prosperity. A stu¬ pendous task faces the men who ¦have taken upon their shoulders the task of raising the necessary funds to givo hope to the unfor- tuna'to brethren who look, upon each of ua ,in this' trying hour of need. Let us rally to the support of this earnest endeavor to bring life and hope once more to oiir des¬ titute brethren in- the desolate, Jewries of Poland, Eoumania; .Ger¬ many, Austria and. other distress countries.".
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle again appeals to every Jewf in our Com¬ munity to join -with this great humanitarian effort o"f the United Jewish Fund. Remember too, that, your contribution is your greatest insurance policy against our en¬ emies (who are attempting to un¬ dermine our security even in this country. We dare not remain indif¬ ferent at this hour. Your answei: can only Be written in the gener- osity of your pledges.
30,000 Jev/sFircj! By Jewish Employers In.Vieima
Rabbis Seek $100,000 To Prevent Closing Of Seminary Depts.
Urges Christians To Join h Jew's Prayers For
LONDON (WNS)—Writiftg in the Canterbury "Diocesan Gazette, the Archbishop of Canterbury call¬ ed on all Christiana -to join in spe¬ cial prayers of fntojcesjjo^ fBii the Ji'wfl ^of (>ermany''and Austria ,to bo hold in all 'synagogues of the British Empire on July 17th. Com menting on tho day of prayer designated by Chief Eabbi Joseph Hertj, the Archbishop of Canter¬ bury-said "it is altogether right that Christians should joift in pray¬ er for God's ancient people^ who are being persecuted. We are espe¬ cially bound to think of the fellow Christians having Jewish blood in their veins. They, too, como under the. same condemnation of what is ealled non-Aryan. Surely this is a duly for all Christian people."
BELFAST (WNS)—Support of efforts for combatting persecution of Jews was promised by Dr. J.F.G. Day, Lord Archbishop of Armagh and Primate for all Ireland, in a letter to Eabbi J. Schachter of Bel¬ fast, thanking him for congratula¬ tions,on his appointment as Prim¬ ate. Dr. Day said: "I have had many friends among the Jewish communities for whom-. I have'the greatest regard. I recognize the part that your community has played'as good citizens in the life of our country. This feeling of re¬ gard makes me feel enraged at the way tho house of Israel has been treated in many, countries of Europe. Thia modern paganism ia hostile to Christiariity as to Jiidaic^m. Anything I can do in, the fight for liberty and good will I ahall endeavor to carry out."
Cerman-Austrian War Vets
Condemn  Race Hate,
ROCHESTER, N. Y. (WNS)— Complete-.loyalty to, the United States, and strenuous opposition to any discrimination .as to race, pvee'd, color or roligion were pledg¬ ed by 500 delegates to the national eonvontion of the German-Austrian war* Veterans, an organization of naturalized citizens.who fought in the German" and Austrian armies during-the World War, Tho conven¬ tion voted to eliminate the word ','hund','.. ffora . the organization's name in order to avoid any possible stigma of pro-Naaism.
130,000 Jews Hiive Left
Qerinany Since 1933
NEW YORK (WNS)—in the fivo yeara from lO.'ilt to 1937 ap¬ proximately inO.OOO Jewa left Germany, it was .announcc'd in'a report by the Joint Distribution Committee, which disclosed that it had expended $3,375,000 to uid Ger¬ man Jewish refugees during that period and $805,000 during 1037. Jewiah emigration fvom Germany during 1837 was 23,500, of whom 3,700 went to Palestine and 13,800 to overeeas Innda,
Royal Society Accords
Rare Regal Honor To Freud
LONDOlf (WNS)—A privilege^ hitherto accorded only to British 1 kings was granted to Dr. Sigmund Freud^ world-famous psychiatrist, when the charter book of tbe 280- year-old Eoyal Society was taken to" his home for his signature. Freud has been a member of the Society since lfl3S. but because-'he had formerly lived in Vienna and is no>v forbidden to leave his house the'book was taken to his home. It had never before left the organ¬ ization's headquarters except for tbe signature of a king.
Lou Rosenthal Passes
A shadow of gloom has been cast over the Columbua Jewish com¬ munity by the sudden death last Tuesday of Louis Rosenthal, age 46. The deceased .had been in ill health for the. past year and in recent m o n ths seemed well on bis 'way to recovery, ^or 16 yoiirs he was a prominent figure ih the life .insur¬ ance   field    as
 agent  for   the
touio Bosontlial.N o r t h w ostern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
At ,the, funeral 'sei^flces which were held <it the Cook & Sqn chapel Wednesday, at 2 p. m., hui.'dreds of friends ' and adm'irers came to pay their last respects and to .hear the eulogy of Kabbi Leopold Greeni wald who for many years was his personal advisor and guiding spirit. A beautiful tribute was also given by E.'^J... Schanfarber. The services were conducted by Eabbi Leopold Greer.Wald, Capitol. Post No. 122, Jewish War Veterans and B'nai E'rith;
Tho pallbearers were J. L. Sill- man, L W. Garek, A, M. Neuitadt, D. A. Eosenfield, Samuel Wasser¬ strom, ¦ Morris Skilken, Herman Hoffman', MoiTis Eatner, Harry Lerner and .Wdohler Pass.
Possessing a genial personality, always kind and considerate and helpful to all \vith whom he camo in daily contact, Lou Eosenthai won the friendship.and,tho'-confi¬ dence of thouauuda, Jews and-non- Jews as well. The deceased will bo missed by his many brothers of Ziori Lodge, No. 62, B'nai B'rith. which organization he had served as president and also by the mem bci'8 of tho Excelsior Club of which he was one of the founders. Ho was, a member of' the Beth Jacob congregation and the Bryden Hoad 'fomple.
Surviving besides, hia wife, Eva, are a daughter, Benita; a son, Stanley Novach; hia mother, Mrs. Eoso Eosenthai; two brothers, Abe and Israel Eosenthai, and two sla. tera, Mrs. Esther Hoffman and Mrs, Gertrudo Eattner. . Tho Chronicle extends the heart¬ felt sympathy of Columbus Jewry
VIENNA (WNS)—Thirty Ithou- sand Jewish employes of sojlf^e 10,- 000 Jewish-owned busincaa .I'entor- prisea in Vienna wero added to the mounting relief rolls hero'.when their employers regretfully an¬ nounced their immediate dismissal on orders from Nazi organizations. Tho dismissals wore caiTicd odt despite a denial .by Nazi officiala, including Josef Buerckel, Eeich coinmissioner for Austria, thiit any official orders to that, of fool; .had boon issued. Nevortholeifs the orders were carried out 10054. At tho samo time'thousands of Vpther Jews still employed by Aryans were also dismissed. The_etfdi;t of tho dismissals is to impeyerish nearly 80% of tho Jewiah popula¬ tion since large numbers of ,Tcw3 aro already jobless aa a result of being barred from the profession's and civil service posts. All dismiss¬ ed employes Were denied severance pay. '
Meanwhile, Buerckel told a con¬ ference of foreign correspondents that tho Jews ought to '*be glad" that the Nazi revolution in' Aua¬ tria "is not on the French or Eus- slan pattern." The Jewish question, ho'' said, "naturally causes prob¬ lems, particularly in k city over¬ filled, with Jews for many yeap, I work on the theory of letting' the little ones alone and grabbing,'iho big ones. We work for Aryaniza¬ tion, but it must be done legally. My own entirely private fdelii.'^ is that the Jews should be removed from productive industry and from cultural pursuits where they,might endanger the nation. But Jews have certain international capacities,'and I see no ob'=itaclo to their engaging in exporting and foreign trade." Buerckel ann'ounced that 3,780 per¬ sona had been arrested by the Nazis and that 150, half of .fddm Jews, had been sent to tbe Da' -concentration cami>.''iJe^denie^Bf a ransom had bOer; demanded for tho release of Baron Louia Edths- child, saying "Eolhschild is being detained in a Vienna prison and hia property is being administered fay a commissioner. We regard him as a criminal and there is no (Question of releasing him. He must receive deserved punishment."
The Nazi secret police ia demand¬ ing huge ransom for many leading Austrian Jewa before they are al¬ lowed to leave the country.'Many_ of thoae for whose release ransom ia being asked have foreign visas, including Chief Eabbi Feuchtwang. Meantvbilo the Vienna edition of the Voelkischer: Beobachter- made public a list of names of 7,12G Vienna Jewish lawyers who have been "temporarily removed from the list of practicing lawyers." Some 1,050 other Jewish lawyers who are war veterans are-still, al¬ lowed to practice. The anti-Jewish violenco waa resumed'when mem¬ bers of the, Hitler Youth accom-,| panied by storm troopers' forced Jewiah men and women to cut graaa in tho-Augarten Park, from which Jews are excluded. Eaida on nearby homes were made to round up Jews for the grass-cutting. Later they were forced to paint signs on the parks of the wall read¬ ing "entry to this park ia prohibit¬ ed to. Jews."
PRAGUE (WNS) — Foi-ty-two Jewish refugees froni Austria have been arrested at Bruenn on charges of crossing thc frontier illegally. AU of those ai'rested hnd register¬ ed with the refugee committee and had been.HUpported by the commit¬ tee or 'relatives.
Ammm Immh Mlm ieadiness T® linsi Proposal lor JmisI ItaML IhIomi iiliii
TANNI5ESV1LLE, N. Y. (WNS) —^A campaign to raise $100,000 for the Jewijih Theological Seminary of America wna voted by the Rab¬ binical Assembly of America at ita convention hero after Dr. Louis Finkelstein, provoat of the Semin¬ ary, revealed that one or more de¬ partments of the Scmin'ary were threatened with closing because of a deficit. Dr. Finkelstein told the assembled rabbis, all, alumni of tho Seminary, that the board of direc¬ tors of tho Seminary '^'havecomo to fI-''--.i't! eoncluaions that, they could r,(, longer carry on their work on a deficit basis, Unless suf¬ ficient funds aro raised during the coming, year the activities, of the Seminary -will, of necessity, be cur¬ tailed."
Eabbi Jacob Freedman read paper in which he called on. the Syri'agogiie Council of America' to uhdertake-a survey of the work of "frec-lancQ rabbis" and check "the abuses resulting from unqualified men in the,rabbinate." Many free¬ lance rabbis, he said,/'fire officiat¬ ing in' many American communijies today without authorization from any center of Jcwiah learning, and without any supervision of their qualifications to lead and teach." Eabbi Samuel M. Blumer.field of Chicago urged that "Jewish ideas only" be taught-in adult education classes held under Jewish'auspices. "Only things Jewish 'Or relating to Je-wa haye a place in those clasaes," he,said. "I, for one,' see no hope for adult JeWish.cducation and for that matter for American Jewi;y unless there comes an end to the exagger¬ ated forms of denominationaliam to -tifhich Jewish life in America has become prey."
Extension of the rabbinical course at the Seminary from four fo five years tp provide an extra ygar jduring jyhich rabMfS 'would u£n prdcf ical experience by serv¬ ing an intemeghip un'der another rabbi or in a small community •without a rabbi, was proposed in a resolution adopted hy the Assem¬ bly. Tho convention alao voted to en'gage a permanent field worker, ono of whose principal duties would be to facilitate the placement of rabbis. Eabbi: Simon Greenberg of Philadelphia wtis re-elected presi¬ dent. Other officers namedwere: Max Arzt, Scranton, Pa., vice- president; Leon S. Lang of Newark, Ifea'aurerj.Arthiir H. Nculander of New York, recording secretary; Halph Simon of Nev? York, correa- ponding secretary. Elected to the executive council were Jacob Bos- niak of New York,- Samuel Fred- man of Philadelphia, Jacob Freed¬ man of Fall Eiver,Mass.;'S..Jo8hua Kohn of Utica, N. Y.; Gershon Hadas of Kansai City and Isidore Hoffman of New. York.
Canadian Fascists At¬ tack Jews At First Natl. Convention
TOEONTO (WNS)—A bitter de¬ nunciation of Jews featured the ad- dres,>! of Adricn Arcand, leader of the National Christian Social Party, at a public mass meeting .marking the end of the porty's first national convention. Climax¬ ing tho four-day meeting in Tor¬ onto after, holding secret session's in Kingston where local police and tho Eoyal Canadian Mounted Police I hunted for them in vain, the, Fas¬ cists heard their national fuehrer promise that Fascism will enable Canada to reconquer its own ter¬ ritory from the "red clutches' Of Moscow and internation'al Jewry" within three years, Outside the meeting hall a crowd of anti-Paa- cists heldya demonstration, At tbo secret' sessions in Kingston the party's ..name' was changed to thc National Unity Party as a result of a. merger with various provincial groupa. A 23-point political plat- form,wa3 adopted and the flaming -torch adopted as the party's symbol. Arcand announced that the party has 6,000 membera. ,
DETEOIT, JULY G—American Zionists meeting at the closing' sessions of the 4l3t annual con¬ vention of tho Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America at the Statler yesterday (Tuesday) declared thdir readiness to consider "without' prejudico" l^ritain's proposal for the cslablishment ¦ of    a.    Jewiah
Roosevelt Hits At Nazi Intolerance
Says America Won't
Tolerate Oppression
Of Any Minority
CHESTEE, Pa. (WNSj-Assur- ance of minority protection in America lies chiefly ¦ in the poculiur composition of American, society itself, Eobert H. Jackson,, solicitor-general of the United States, said in accepting a monument presented to the Ahieri' can people by the Eepublic of FiU' land. Declaring that American politiiial institutions are based on a mosaic of minorities in which none is aufficleiitly dominant to threaten (|the liberties of any otliev, Mr. Jack¬ son aaid "we are a nation with no pernmnently preponderant group in religion, in nationality, in tradi¬ tion, in interest or in opinion. And theije men of' many origins are united in a' firm eonfidenco and a stubborn determination" that, this land will not tolerate oppveasionof
^   any racial, national,   leligious to the bereaved widow and familyj, (lolitical minority."
Nazis   And   Communists   Are
Branded Racket By State
Investigating Comm.
NEW YOEK (WNS)—"It is tho consensus, of opinion of the, com¬ mittee ' that both' movements (Communist Party and Gorman- American Bund) are what might be termed raokets,*' State Senator John -J,. McNabee ' declared in ad¬ journing the hearings of tho stato committee probing un-American activities. He said the committee had.found .seven parallels between tho. Coinmunist and Nazis in thia country, including the fact that both have youth movements pre- po;ring the youth for future mem¬ bership, in. the senior body; FritK Kiihn, Bund lender,.'visited Hitler, and Earl Browder, Communist leader, visited Stalin; the Bund ia engaged in promoting lace hatred and the..Coramiiiiists promote class hatred.
Anti-Semitic Leaflet Is Olstri-
bnted In Wnsliington
Suburb
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)— Anti-Semitic literature was public¬ ly distributed within sight of the nation's eapitol for the firat time when copies' of a leaflet sponsored bytlie,"Nation-aliat Pdbllshing Co." were handed out in Colonial Vil¬ lage, Va., a Waahington subuib. Tho leaflet aaid; "Communism is Jewiah. The V. S. Government is controlled-by Jewa,The press, ra¬ dio and theatre are Jew-owned and controlled. They have a secret, in¬ ner world government known to few people. Communists aro 100 per cent for Eooaevelt. Whyl Get proof by Bending either cash or money order to: Natlonaliat Pub- liaWng Co." The addreas is a Wasli- jijgton tiost office Jio^.'
NEW YOEK (WNS) — Sharp criticism of. Fascist and Nazi rac¬ ial intolerance, .exiling of scientists and burning of books was voiced b5^ President Eoosevelt in an ad¬ dress ,to the members of the Na¬ tional Education Association on the World's Fair Grounda. Without mentioning any country by name but leaving ho doubt as to which countries he !meant, the President said .that "whea the clock of civil¬ ization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scien¬ tists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing univer¬ sities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added bur¬ den is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and freO' learning still burns bright.
'If the fires of freedom and, civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press is censoired, wo muat redoiible ¦. our' ef¬ fort? here to keep it free. If it other lands the eternal' truths of the past are threatened by intoler¬ ance, we jnust provide a safe place here for their perpetuation. There may be times when men'and women in the turmoil of.change.lose touch with the civilized gains of educa¬ tion; but the gains of education are nevei- really lost. Books may be burned, and' cities .sacked, but truth,' like the yearning for free¬ dom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate vic¬ tory of tomorrow 'is Tvith demo¬ cracy, and through democracy with education, for no people con. be kept eternally ignorant or eternal¬ ly enslaved."
Jews, Catholics And Protestants In Joint Effort      '
NEW YOEK (WNS)—Organiza¬ tion, of tlie Now York round table of tho National Conference of Jews arid Christians, which will aim to investigate ond attempt to recti^ wherever po'aaible tho occaaioiinl chargeg and counter-chargea of re- ligioug diacrimination in New York, to develop a feeling ot bcttei- undoratanding between the city's almoat 2,000,000 Jews, 2,000,000 Catholica and 2,000,000 Protestants and to utilize social and intellec¬ tual intercourse between leading rcpreaentatiyea of the three groupa to "ease such tensions as may de¬ velop from time to timo itt the overy-duy life of so pulsating a community" was announced here by Dr. Everett E. Clinchy, executive director of the Coiifoi-ence. Tho lo¬ cal round table is headed by three eo-chuinncu; J'amea W. Gerard, ProteaUiJil; Gerald Carioll, Prot¬ estant, and Maurice Wertlieim, Jew. fieginiil T. Kennedy has been nanied executive aecretavy.
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Dr. Solomon Goldman
Stato'in Palestine in' a political resolution .,which reiterated the stand taken by tbo World .Zionist Congreas rejecting the partition scheme as recommended by the Peel Eoyal Commission and alter¬ native proposal of .palliatives that would restrict the. normal develop¬ ment of tho Jewish National Home.
This decision, was embodied in'S resolution unanimously adopted by tho convention emphaaizing   that any auch conaideration of a Jewish Stats would be   given    "without prejudice,"   \.^^  „, ......i..,..'h't^-w;
'" Eecalling: that the World Zionist Congress, supreme legislative body of the Zionist Movement, had em-, powered it's Executive to negotiate with the British Govemment "with a view to ascertaining the precise terms of His Majesty's Govem¬ ment for the prop'osed establish¬ ment of a Jewish State", the reao- I'lution deplored the delaya of the Mandatory Power in arriving at a decision on its future policy. The convention urged a speedy decision becauao of ita "grave concem over the protraction of economic and political uncertainty so damaging to tho common'good of Palestine."
The convention alao pledged ita fullest aupport of the Execiitive of the Worrld Zionist Organizotion, headed b^ Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who ia also President of the Jewish Agency for Paleatine, in resisting any infringement of Jewish rights in Paleatine as guijranteed in the Balfour Declaration.arid the Man¬ date of the League of Nations under.which Britain has been ad¬ ministering the country.
Special. emphasia is placed upon
clause urging tho Executive to uae' ita influence' to' brin^y about "an uninterrupted flow of Jewish immigration into Paleatine" SO that the principle of economic ab¬ sorptive, capacity may contiiiue to be the basis of refugee Jewiah settlement.
Dr. Goldman Elected
At 2 A. M. this moriiing (Tues¬ day) Dr. Solomon. Goldman, of Chicago, National Co-Chairman of the United Palestino Appeal, was elected to succeed Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who retired from the presi¬ dency of the Zionist Organj^atiort of America, after haying served two conaeeutive one-year terma as its executive head.
Tlje election of Dr. Goldman occurred in a dramatic atmos- phei'o sinco it, mavlced the first time that a Zionist Proaident had heen selected in an open .contest in tho forty years of the Zionist Organization's existence. Dr. Gold¬ man was - the Only candidate brought before "the convention'' by the Nominations Committee, 'pre¬ sided over by. Carl Sherman, for¬ mer Attorney- General of New York Stato. But Dr. Israel Gold¬ stein of N'ew York, President of the Jewish National Fund, was nominated from tho floor by Louia Rocker, of New 'York, Chairman of the Finance Committee o£ the Organization.
Iu the voting which was ilareied out by a aeci'et ballot in a lugre room adjoining tho convention hall Dr. Goldman . received 330 votca and Dr. Goldatein, 237. A total of 567 delcgsitea cast ballots in the election. The results were an¬ nounced to the delegate* ahortly attiais A, M. by Dr, Wiae.
Jst Timo Midwest Leader Dr. Goldman, who haa a wido reputation aa a rabbinical scholar and writer, is tho firat lender from the Midwe.it to hold the President's office in tho Orgoniza- tion. A native of New York, Dr. Goldman who is forty-four years of age, vfas graduated fi;om tlio .Tewish Theological Seminary which alao aivordcd him tho degree of Doctor of Hebrew Letters. Ho re¬ ceived his PH. D. from Columbia University.
Dr. Goldman ia the author and editor of many Hebrew and theo¬ logical publications. Among his best known -works are "A Eabbi Takes Stock," "Tho Golden Chain," ' a five-volume anthology of Jevri.ih literature, and "The Jew And The Universe."
Dr. Goldman ia a member of the Board of: Governors of tho Jewiah Theological Seminary and a trus¬ tee of the Jewish Publication So¬ ciety. Uo was also a former presi¬ dent of lho National Hebrew Asso¬ ciation, nnd associate editor of Character Magazine. He has been a contributor to symposia on Phil¬ osophy and roligion published by the University of Cihicago..
Beforo coming to Chicago to occupy the pulpit of Congregation Anachc Eraet whose spiritual leader he is toddy, Dr. Goldman was tho tabbi of synagogues In Brooklyn and Cleveland. Officers Elected A full slate of now officers for tha Organization' was named at yesterday's? dosing eossion" imme¬ diately after tho induction by Dr. WIa'o,of Dr. Goldman as the new President.
I The Convention «loi:te^.tsy<',.¥!w;'..;,IC:;ii "¦rrcsiddnta.liirof wHoih v/ero for¬ mer Presidents of tho Organiza¬ tion. Tho Vice-Presidents named wero Dr. Wiso, Federal .Tudge . Julian W. Mack, Louis Lipsky, Eobert Szold, and Judge Morris Eothcnberg all of Now York City,
Judge William M. Lewis of Phil¬ adelphia was elected, chairman of tho Administralivo Committee, and ' Dr. Ludwiic Lewisohn, the noted American author and critic was named Honorary Secretary.
Morris Margulies was elected to tho poat of Secretary for the sev¬ enth conaeeutive term.
Mortis Weinberg was elected Treasurer, and an Executive Com¬ mittee ivas chosen, consiiting of the following' leaders in Zionist ao- , tivities throughout the country; David Berenstein, of St. Louis; Dr. Baniett E. Brickner, of Cleveland; Charles' A. Cowen of New York; Judge Henry Ellenbogcn of Pitts- ' burgh; Judge Hurry M. Fisher of Chicago; Harry Fricdbcrg of Kan¬ aaa City; Dr. A. H. Frledland of Cleveland; Abraham Goldberg of New York; Abraham Goldstein of Hailford; Dr. Israel Goldstein of New York; Dr. James G. Heller of Cincinnati; Dr. Edward L. Israel of Baltimore; Eabbi Israel H. Lovinthal of Brooklyn; Meyer Levy of Bronx; Eabbi IrvBig Miller of New York; Col. A. H. Kosenberg of Chicago; Carl Sherman of New York, former Stato Attorney Gen¬ eral; Hon. William I. Siegel of Brooklyn; Dr, Abba Hillcl Silver .' of Cleveland; and Hon. Elihu D. Stono of Beaton.   '
Condemn Outrages Asserting that hdiuman out¬ rages are being commuted against the Jew."! in Germany "and Austria, tho Zionist Convention adopted a reaolulion voicing its profound nb- hoLTcnce of the acts of violence and brutality visited upon "peaceful and law-abldfng elements Sn these lands."
The reaolution alao expreased a solemn protest against thc acts of the Nazi regime "which flouts all conceptions of decency and civilized couducl," adding a messaBC of pro¬ found ^ympathy to the victims of these shocking persecutiona." Need For Greater Support iSeiiking.to provide a haven of refuge in Palestine for homclces Jew:, in thoso countriea, tha Con¬ vention adopted a resolution in whieh it characteriijed the United Palealiiie Appeal, the nation-wide campaign for ¥1,600,000 for Pal¬ estino tettlement as "tha moat tifectivo and economic mothod ot raising the fnnds reiiuircd to make posaiblo inunigraflon, coloat- aation, land piirchjise, and gener- , til doieloiuuent in Palestine oa a scale commonsurittB with the needs for cr«Bllng greatt^r oppoUuhitfr^ for itia^^n."
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