Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1940-05-24

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Vol. 19   No. 22
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 24,  1040
Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals
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Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Noted Speaker And Initiation To Feature B'nai B'rith Meeting
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Confidential Information gath¬ ered by American military ob¬ servers in Europe indicates that the biggest mistake Chamber¬ lain made in the last few months of his premiership was the letting out of Leslie Hore- Bellaha from the War Ministry. . . If the army reforms Hore- Belisha advocated had been car¬ ried out the British wouldn't have suffered their fiasco In Norway and would have been able to give effective aid to Hol¬ land's arm y—which, lacking that help, had to stop fighting the Nazi Invaders . . . Incident¬ ally, that was a heroic battle virhlch the little Dutch army, led by Its Jewish commander-ln- ehlef. General Henri Gerard Winkelman, put up against the mechanized and numerically vastly superior Nazi forces , - An Indication of trouble for the Balkans in the very near future ia seen In King Carol's precau¬ tionary move In shipping off his Jewish friend Magda Lupescu to London . . . Rumor has it that efforts are being made to find her a refuge on this contin¬ ent as quickly as possible . . . Latest story via the trans-Atlan- • tic .'grapevine Is that Italy's en- ttyj.lntO the-war on, .the Nazi
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Tuesday night will be an Im¬ portant occasion for Columbus Jewry, when close to one hun¬ dred new members will be init¬ iated in Zion Lodge No. 62, B'nai B'rlth at the East Broad St. Temple.     To
add to the s I g n I f I c- ance of this program, Rabbi Leon Fram, of De-
Constant Vigilance And Protective Action Urged
rabbi of Tem pie Beth El, will deliver a most time¬ ly address on the subject, "If   Hitler
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Rabbi Fram has a notable record as a scholar, orator, world traveler and writer. He has visited many countries in the past six years. In Palestine, Russia, Mexico, Latin America. France, England and Central and Eastern Europe. During these travels he has been keen observer of world affairs,
A   special   resolution     calling upon   "all  thoughtful    and    re¬ sponsible    public   officials   and especially  upon  all  school  and college.  officials    urging    con¬ stant   vigilance  and    protective action to maintain these essen¬ tial libettles for all students and student groups without control or Interference    by governmen¬ tal   or  other   agencies"   was   Is- , jj   I sued yesterday by the American ...„w     i.»4„v,i   Committee  for  Democracy  and l?n '.= ^i,., J Intellectual Freedom. 5?"k, S .^™ I     m  announcing the    adoption of   thifi   resolution.  Prof.   Franz Boas,  Chairman  of  the  Ameri¬ can Committee said; "Our Execu¬ tive Board prepared this resolu¬ tion, which was then adopted by the full membership of tlie Com¬ mittee, because we realize that recent    developments    In    the European war are creating ten¬ sions and a false 'patriotism' in our   own   country   which   must not be allowed to interfere with the   free   discussion   and   study which    is essential    In a demo¬ cratic educational system. There are   already    too   many   cases where   government   and  school
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0f«iJ5he,i'inasclstv regime; ^beJjig thoroiighly aiitl-Nsal . . . If you seui thing that the stories of Nazi espionage and fifth columns on this continent are exaggerat¬ ed, and even the experience of various European ex-neutrals hasn't convinced you, just re¬ member that a recent purge of Nazi in Ecuador left that coun¬ try with practically no air force. . . Among the Dutch Jews who are trying to escape from Nazi- held Holland are sixty profes¬ sors at famous Dutch universi¬ ties . . . And among the Aus¬ trian refugees caught in Hol¬ land by the Blitzkrieg Is the father of LUIse Ralner. THEY SAY
Lady  Wonder,  the  soothsay¬ ing mare of Richmond, who has been getting a lot of publicity lately,  Is reported  to have an¬ nounced that the war will last three  years  and  that England will emerge victorious . . . And Grant Lewi, who has Just pub¬ lished a    book    on    astrology, claims that Hitler hasn't much longer to live and that Stalin, Mussolini    and     Franco     will eventually ally themselves with the   democracies .  .  . Another Blitzkrieg  is being  readied  by the Nazis, this time against the Rothschild dynasty , • . it'll be an Ufa film, and the featured villlan will   be   Nathan    Roth¬ schild, who has lieen dead over a century ... F. P. A. reports that a real estate man has come out with  the  cheerful  progno¬ sis that before long Hitler will be   land-poor . . . Pete   Gross, head of the literary department of the A. and S- Lyons Agency, tells us that one of his bosses had the bright Idea of bringing the    ex-Kaiser,    whose    Doom home Is now Nazi territory, to Hollywood    to play himself in thb Vincent  Sheean    "Foreign Correspondent" picture ... If one ot these days you see a ser¬ ial hy Pierre van Paassen in the Jewish Dally Forward you wlU knovr that it ia a special Yiddish (Continued on Fage 5)
':tit.ii;itlrvitHli^ta#pf7ths:;t>6aie that will follow the preserit Avar. He  haa  already  delivered  six sermons, dealing with the prin¬ ciples of the peace that should be established If the Allies win. Rabbi Fram began    these    lec¬ tures under the stimulus of the request of the President of the United States that the churches begin thinking in terms of a de¬ sign    for a   permanent   world peace to be planned at the peace conference following the second World    War.       Rabbi    Fram's series of sermons, which sought to define the methods and ob¬ jectives of such a stable peace, proved so Interesting to the con¬ gregation that he has been re¬ quested to carry the series still further and to consider all the possibilities   presented   by   the conflict, including the role that America plays In the world sit uation.
Rabbi Fram has been invited to be the principal speaker at the United Veteran Memorial Day services on May 30th in De¬ troit. This honor has been ac¬ corded him on many similar oc¬ casions before.
Bemard Feltllnger, chairman ot the membership campaign committee of Zlon Lodge, urges all candidates to be present for the initiation by 8 P. M. next Tuesday at the Broad St. Tem pie.    ,
Letters have been sent to all Jewish groups in Columbus to attend this meeting which is open to the entire community.
Rabbi Fram will be interview¬ ed over WHKC at 4:45 p. m. Tues¬ day by Allan Tarshlsh during his regular weekly broadcast.
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nPHOID EPIDEMIC BREAKS OUT AMONG THE JEWISH POPULATIONOF AMSTERDAM
LONDON (WNS)— Exhausted from continuous air bombings and shellings, the Jewish population of Amster¬ dam has fallen easy prey to a typhoid epidemic which has swept the Jewish quarter of that city, it was reported here.
While Jewish doctors and nurses rallied to combat the dreaded epidemic, the Mayor of Amsterdam issued an ap¬ peal for food. It was learned here that the invading Ger¬ man Army had confiscated most of the city's food supply, leaving Amsterdam with insufficient food to meet her normal needs.
The epidemic In the Jewish quarter was attributed to the - fact that Jews from all parts of the land rushed to Amsterdam as soon as the Nazis started to March, hoping to secure safety In that city. The influx of Jews from the provinces, coup¬ led with Inadequate food and water, resulted In the rapidly- spreading epidemic.
The Mayor has requested the Jews to abandon    the    Jewish quarter    and    seek    temporary lodgings elsewhere in the city. Refugees  Recaptured Jewish    refugees    from  Bel- glum who arrived here on small boats,   reported  that  the  great majority   of  German-Jewish   re¬ fugees, who had sought refuge In Belgium, had been recaptur¬ ed  by  the    Invading    German Army.     Contrary to eariler re¬ ports,  the  German  Jewish   re¬ fugees were released froin in- ; temmeni camps; on thp  same ; r;ia^, :tV,b'*7»WB'?l>Iliil-W^HmapWrie
United Jewish Fund Women's Division Being Organized
According to Robert W. Schiff, chairman of this year's United Jewish Fund of Colum-
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foUows:
WBEBEAS, the CoiutltuUon of the United States of America In Article 1 of the Bill of Rights guarantees that there shall be no abridgment ot freedom of speech, press and peace¬ ful assembly, and
WIIEHEAS, these freedoms and rights are basic to the development of democratic InsUtutlons and pro- ccdiires,  and
WnEttEAS, these same civil liberties recognize by Implication the Im¬ portance of free and full discus¬ sion, and
WHEBBAS. Intellectual growth at Its best depends upon Intelligence, rea¬ son,   experience,   and  diversity,   and
WIIEKEAS. Amrican schools and col¬ leges should maintain the highest possible standards for their students In free and full discussion regard-1 Ing contemporary social, economic.' and potlUcal as well as historical, matters, and maintain the right of students to organize In groups tor such discussions:
BE     IT     TUBBEPOBE     BESOLVED.
that the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Free¬ dom urge upon all thoughtful and responsible public officials and especially upon all school and col¬ lege officials constant vigilance and protective action to maintain these essential liberties for all students and student groups without control or Interference by governmental or other agencies.
Zionist District To Prtisent Interesting Program Monday
An increasing endorsement of Zionist alms by American Jewry is popularizing and strengthen¬ ing the movement throughout the country. The Columbus District, under the leadership of Robert L. Mellman, has likewise flourished during the past year with nearly one hundred new members having been enrolled. a atmiw I    1"°  '^'°^®  '¦'^'^  successful  sea-
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this coming Monday, May 27th, 8:00 P, M., at the Schonthal Cen¬ ter. Sam Yablok, who recent¬ ly returned from several years
REFVOEB8 ARRIVE! NEW VORK (WNS)—T\ young German Jewish refugees were aboard the Norwegian lin¬ er Mosfruit which docked here this week from London. The re¬ fugees said that they had origin¬ ally fled from Germany to Eng¬ land and during the last few
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bus campaign, which officially gets underway on Thursday, June- 13, the largest army of volunteers, which will include the Women and Youth Groups of our community, will join In the greatest fund raising effort In our community's history "The reason for this Is obvious" Mr. Schiff staled.
"Never has there been so much at stake In a communal effort. The lives of the 400.- 000 war sufferers who are being fed dally In Poland, the exist¬ ence of 400,000 refugees scatter¬ ed all over the world, the future of Jewish resettlement In Pal¬ estine, the success of counter¬ action against anti-Semitic movements and Nazi propoganda In this country, the continua¬ tion of local services which are finding employment and are giving religious education to Jewish youth—all this depends upon the response of Jews In Columbus and other cities throughout America who will be holding their campaigns during the next few weeks," concluded Mr. Schiff.
A prompt response to the emergency abroad, in a united determined effort, was made this week when a large group of women met last Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Alfred J. Kobacker, 295 S. Park¬ view Ave., to formulate plans for a Women's Division in the United Jewish Fund Campaign. With Mrs.  Kobacker, as chair
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The Jewish refugees fr6m Belgium are mainly women and children. They were bundled Into cars on the first day ot the Nazi Invasion and were able to make their way to safety. Those who attempted to leave several days later, however, found all vehicles commandeer¬ ed by troops.
The refugees said that Ostend was crowded with Jewish re¬ fugees who were unable to se¬ cure passage to London. Brit¬ ish ships, they said, were tak¬ ing on only Jewish children. Talk of Jewish Regiment According to unconfirmed re¬ ports in London, the War Min¬ istry is considering the creation of an all-Jewish regiment to fight with the Allied forces in France. These reports state that if a sufficient number of Jews ask to serve In a "Jewish regiment," one will be organiz¬ ed. The reports made clear, however, that the regiment will not serve in Palestine.
Meanwhile, reports have been circulating   here   of   the   possi¬ bility of the organization o£ a legion, to be commanded by a prominent    American    now  in England, which will be made up of members of various nationali¬ ties.     The War Ministry    haa announced that persons from ail over the world have volunteei- ed to tight with the Allies. Nazis Propagandize Arabs The Nazi Propaganda bureau advised  Arabs  in  Palestine  to revolt   against   their    "English and Jewish rulers," in a special broadcast    heard    here.      The Nazlz announcer told the Arabs: "We  have  brought bread  and freedom to all lands which we have occupied."    The broadt^et concltided  with  a  promise  to "Uberate" the Arabs.
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