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Vol. 10, No. 14
C0LIIMBU8, OHIO, FRIDAV, MARCH 2(1, 1940
Devoted to AmeflesB and Jewish Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Fnnn BreiTwfaere By PHINBAS J. BIRON
HOT STUFF
Nostradamu.-!, the 16th-century Jewish  physician who wrote book  foretelling  the  events  of years then to come, said, among other things, that the day when the Palm  and Shamrock   meet would    mark the beginning of the end  of the   Germanic   em plre, Danton Walker recalls . . This meeting occurred a couple of weeks ago,  you  remember, when both St. Patrick's Day and Palm Sunday fell on Dr. Steph¬ en S. Wise's birthday . . . The next day    came   that    Historic meeting of dictators at the Bren¬ ner Pass—and now we're wait¬ ing    anxiously to see whether the ijeglnnlng of the end of Hit¬ ler's empire Is In sight . . It's up to you, Benito, to make Nos¬ tradamus'  prophecy come true, . . One medical theory, by the way, states that Hitler's general meanness Is due to an excessive proportion of fats and eggs In hlB diet... It seems such a diet is bad for lioth temper and liv¬ er         You remember that Dr. Alfred Neumann, the Viennese throat specialist who some years ago refused to operate, on Hit¬ ler, died In this country a lew months ago, after only a short yrhlle of freedom and safety in " '               , Going the rounds Is  w^s
Premier Mussolinf Planning To Rid Italy Of Jews
American Citizens Sent $40,000,000 Abroad For Relief
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'.-, Nazi concentration tsanip .-. ' bodk on wat propaganda in this courttjy is being readied by Har¬ old Irvine and James Wecbs' ler M)OKA HBBE
The    Treasury    Department says that It Isn't Uncle Sam's of- fraal censor who la barring Jacob Epstein's famous statue of Ad¬ am from official entry Into this country, but rather the failure o£>the First Man's Importers to file entry applications . . . The new  American   ambassador  to Nazlland, Washington whispers, will probably be Clarence Pickett, himself a Quaker, who after the last war helped In the Friends' relief work in  Berlin and Vi¬ enna ... If you have three G's to spare you can buy a car spec¬ ially built for Gory Goering at a cost of $9,500 . . . Herr Herman .decided it was too splffy-looking for use In war-time . , . NEiW ZIONIST NEWS Vladimir     Jabotinsky's    New '     York meeting was more than a sell-out . . . Hundreds of people who had reserved seals weren't able to get into the packed hall. . . . Among them were official representatives   of the Turkish '    and Polish governments . . .Our private observation is that Ja¬ botinsky   always  attracts  more young men    and    good-looking women than any other Zionist leader . . . And this Revisionist meeting   for Jabotinsky   over shadowed the New York recep¬ tion given Dr. Chaim Weizmann •  as a   World   Zionist   Congress overshadows   a   Brooklyn   Tal- mjrd Torah  directors' meeting. ,. .'The only thing we didn't like at the Jabotinsky gathering was the fact that Aaron Propes of Poland wore   a brown uniform with a gam Browne belt. . . As he left the building hundreds of Jews booed hhn, believing that he was a German Bundlt who '  had come there lor the purpose of making trouble ... But when he addressed them as "chaver- Im" the booers were transform¬ ed Into a proud    escort   that (ConllniMd on 'age t).
BOMB (WNS) — Following Italy's moves to rid the profes¬ sions of all Jews, Premier Ben¬ ito Mussolini has Indicated that he will soon launch a campaign to force Italy's 40,000 Jews out of the country, It was learned from ufsually reliable sources here.
The first tangible step in the new anti-Semitic drive was seen in the Government's recall of a previous order banning Jewish emigration to other countries. Several weeks ago Rome author¬ ities called In all passports held by Jews.
It was reported that the Gov¬ ernment now wishes to have Jews emigrate from litay at the rate of 3,500 a year. At this rate, it is estimated, the entire Jewish population will have left Italy within eleven years.
The Italian quota for immi¬ gration to the United States is 5,200 yearly, far in excess of 3,500, There is no similarity between tbe situation confront¬ ing Italian Jews and the predica¬ ment in which Jews of Greater Germany find themselves since there arc more emigration pos slbilitles open to Italian Jews In recent years Italian Jews have emlg^ted in groups to <9«ttt)i^!<fto»iclM^ 4ij[d<itth$£(U&aM(
lir Palestbie and the   Belgian Congo
Epidemic Sweeping Lublin Jewish ReservabWBlack Thursday" In Lodz'
WA8HI!V(5TON (WNSl _ American charitable and relig¬ ious organizations contributed approximately $40,000,000 to re¬ lief In foreign countries during 1939, it was announced here by the Department of Commerce which issued an annual survey of institutional remittances to Foreign countries.
The survey disclosed that Jewish and Catholic organiza¬ tions sent more money abroad during 1939 than in previous years while Protestant groups decreased their contributions.
Jewish contributions, devoted mainly to the relief, rehabilita¬ tion and resettlement of Jews in Europe and the Near East, increased from 7,100,000 in 1938 to $11,100,000 In 1939, a Jump of more than fifty per cent.
Catholic funds, sent to China and other Asiatic countries, amounted to $2,300,000 in 1939 as compared with 82,100,000 in 1938. Protestant organizations sent abroad $15,600,000 in 1939 as compared with $16,500,000 in 1938,
In addition, various sums were expended for war relief work
Memorial Services For Rabbi I. Werne Sunday Evening
GERMANS FOBBIDDEN TO PLAY BRIDGE
r,0|NDON (WNS) — German "aryans" were kept on the right path when the official radio ad¬ vised them not to play bridge because the widely-popular game is "an Anglo-Jewish" game. The broadcast specifi¬ cally warned the population not to play bridge during the East er holiday.
Germans were unable to visit
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because of the shortage of trains, 'flee  In various national  bodys
Dr. Felix A. Levy of Chicago, will speak from the pulpit of the Bryden Road Temple this coming Friday evening, April 5, at the Sabbath Services. Dr Levy Is known throughout the country as one of the most prom¬ inent and best informed rabbis in the American pulpit. He Is a former president of the Cen¬ tral Conference of American Rabbis, the oldest and largest rabbinical group in the world, and has held numerous high of¬ fices In various national bodys.
His  coming is  awaited   with
This Sunday evening, March 31, at 8 o'clock, special memor¬ ial services will be held at the Agudath Achim Synagogue In memory of the late Rabbi Isaac Werne, chief Rabbi of Los Ange¬ les, Calif., who for 25 years was spiritual leader of the local con¬ gregation, Agudath Acblm. The service is being sponsored joint¬ ly with the Ahavath Sholem which congregation Habbl Werne also served for a number of years.
An Invitation is also extended to the members of all congrega¬ tions and organizations in Co lumbus and neighboring towns to join in paying tribute to the former leader of OrthVjdox Jew¬ ry here.
Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprung, successor to Rabbi Weme for the past eight years and collob- orator in his work on "Malmo¬ nides Philosophy", (pubUshed in California in 1930) will de- Jlver the main eulogy. Cantor P^    Gelhnan    will    chant the
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Ahavath Sholem congregation " with a memorial prayer Others to be heard on the program will be Rabbi N, Zelizer, Opening Prayer; Dr, Lee J, Levlnger, ad¬ dress; Rabbi Harry Kaplan, Closing Prayer, Jacob Krako¬ witz, president of Agudath Ach¬ im congregation, will open the meeting and Morris Levlson will act as chairman.
The meeting is open lo the public.
by the members of the congre¬ gation. Rabbi Samuel M. Gup will conduct the services and present Dr. Levy to the audi¬ ence.
E. J. 0CHANFARBER, PIIKalDKNT
SIMON UWAHOS. TI1«A»UIH11
THE UNITED JEWISH FUND OF COLUMBUS,OHIO
announces
a very important meeting of its subscribers
Tuesday Evening, Eight O'clock, April 2, 1940
Fort Hayes  Hotel Ball Room
Onicera    will    be    elected.      •   A   Board   of   Directors   and Campaign and Budget Conimlttee will bo chosen.
THIS IS-YOUR MEETING! Arrange to attend and to participate in the perfecting of an organization to carry on the ever-increasing work and responsibilities.
NO FUNDS WILL BE RAISED AT THIS MEETING AND NO
SPEECHES MADE.      NOTE THE TIME AND PLACE ON
yOUR CALENDAR NOW.
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AMSTERDAM (WNS)— A wide-spread epidemic has been taking a fearful toll in the Lub¬ lin Jewish "reservation" as a result of the overcrowding, lack of fresh food and medical sup¬ plies, it was reliably learned here.
Medical circles frequently warned that an epidemic is in¬ evitable under current condi¬ tions In the reservation. In the face of these warnings Nazi authorities have continued to send Jews from all parts of Greater Germany to that small area outside of Lublin which has been designated as the "Jewish reservation."
The epidemic was held in check while the cold weather continued but the arrival of Spring and warm weather pre¬ cipitated a new outbreak which is rapidly decimating the popu¬ lation. Nazi authorities, it was reported, have requested Berlin to discontinue the practice of expelling Jews from other parts of Germany to LubUn but this request has been ignored
Unless aid is forthcoming Im¬ mediately the epidemic will pro¬ bably reach catastrophic propoi> tlons. Because ,of a recent Nazi decree Jews In the reservation are not' permitted to coptact Jewish communities, in other  -itc** ¦ ' -^
Iws 15[ecut?a«<i -j^i^ "MeanwhUe, it was repor^W that In Lodz, appropriately ' known here as the city of hor¬ ror, between 30 and 40 Jews are executed by the CSestapo every Thursday, The weekly .execu¬ tions are carried out in the small Lodz suburb of Beldow,
No official reason has been given for the. executions but It is believed that the Nazi need more room In the already over¬ crowded jails for more prisoners and have hit upon the idea of weekly executions to provide more room. The victims are selected at random by the Ges¬ tapo and herded Into Jail to await "Black Thursday".
The Jewish communities in Lodz and neighboring districts, it was said, present a weird appearance because of the com¬ plete lack of men between the ages of 16 and 50, The great majority of the younger Jews are In prison. The city pris¬ ons are crowded with thousands of men, women and children, most of whom bad been arrest¬ ed on the flimsiest charges. On one day last February approxi¬ mately 80 Jewish women were seized by the Gestapo while walking on Piotrokowska Street.
The prisons have no sanitary facilities and many prisoners contract typhoid while serving their sentences. Fifteen per¬ sons are herded into cells orig¬ inally built for two or three pei sons.
Meanwhile, those more fortun ate Jews who are not in prison have been ordered to move fnto the poorest slum quarter In the city, which henceforth will be the Jewish quarter. One room Is available in this quarter— the Balutl district—lor every three Jewish families.
The Jews are not permitted to take their furniture or bed¬ clothes witli them but may take small bundles of personal ef¬ fects. Jewish homes outside the Balutl section are designat¬ ed hy special yellow signs.
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