Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1941-09-05

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Vol. 20,  No. .17
rOLl'MBl'H, OHIO. FRIDAV, HEPTEMBKR .'i, l!MI
OevoteA to American ¦od Jewisb Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Bverywhere By PHINDIAS 1. BIRON
ZIONEWS
The Zioni.t^t con\'eniinn ink Ing place at Cincinnati this weekend will blossom forth in¬ to a great show of unity, we pre¬ dict, with Dr. Stephen S. Wise. Louis Lip.sky and Prexy Ed. mund I. Kaufman pledging mu lual aid and cooperation . . , However, we are lold that a group of balabatim is engaged m the formation of a new Zion¬ ist organization . . . That group ih said to have substantial finan tial backing and has eslaWi.shed a three-point program . . . The first of these points is maxl mum Zionism, which means a Tewish Homeland taking in both sides of the .Jordan . , . The sec¬ ond is conservation and promo¬ tion of Jewish traditional val¬ ues . . . And the third, leader- ershlp in the fight again.st anti- Semitism in counlries outside of Palestine . . . Morris MarguUes, energetic Secretary of the ZOA, says it's not at all surprising that radio commentator Ian Ross MacFarlane is such a, great friend of Zion . . . The amity is of long standing, as witnessed by the fact that in the State of Virginia the towns of Palestine and Macfarlan are very close neighbors . . . Watch for a forth-
-    coming-issue of Who magazine, - ¦wh,ich;,wJH: Mature a story, on
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and^ -ivrlter, has cdnpletei) ia book on the Christian friends of Zionism . . , The volume has been purchased by the ZOA, which is making arrangements for Its publication. BUNDLES PROM  BRITAIN
The London Times, we under- .stand. is very proud of the fact that New York's Judge Joseph M. Pro.skauer makes it a point to get its every issue . . . But the
Japan Will Launch First Anti-Jewish Campaign Sept. 7th
TOKYO iW.N'.S). The small .Icwi.-^h poi}iil:itinn of .lapan aw.'dferl witli apprehension the opening on Scplcmher 7lh of tho first organized ;mti-.Iewish campaign in Ihc history of (he country which will seek to im¬ press ujion the .lapanese people the fact that ".lews ai-c the ene mies of the wori<l."
Former I'remier Ceneral Sen- juro Hayashi has banded to. goihor the ('Otintt-\'"s extreme naiionaii.-^t elemenls into an anti- Semitic organization which, ac cording lo ali indications, will operate with the sami' cold nilh lessness which characterized the .Storm Troopers in Nazi Ger¬ many and the fanatically anti Semitic Iron fJuards in Rumania
Confirmalion of the report that the anti-.Iewish campaign wiii lake on :i witch-hunting character was fiii-nished by the newspaper "'Hocbi" which re¬ ported Ihat the anti-Semitic leaders have decided to merge the anli-.lewish drive with the current anii-espionage cam¬ paign.
Branches of the anti-Jewish organization, which wiii sponsor its first mass meeting at Asa- kusa on September 7th, will he established throughout tbe country to disclose "the menace of espionage and Jews", the anti-Semitic leaders declared. V-''OTie!, aew^paper..>j.'HQdil'7i ipom-, meiit'eatMaiy/Klthertcf/:;tfajft:n,-«a^ been imitating the famous three monkeys who hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil, but henceforth the nationaUsts will tighten the anti-espionage and anti-Jewish  drives.
it should come as a surprise to no one. therefore, if Jews are arrested here soon and chargetl with acting in behalf of foreign Governmenti^. It appears in¬ evitable, too. that strict econo- be applied
Aid To Britain To Be Theme Of Zionist Convention
FRENCH JEWS IN FEAR AS RETAIN NAMES ANTI-SEMITIC FRENCH LEGION PARTY
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To  lie  niNciiKNod   By  Zionist
f.CJulerH
Mow Xionists throughout the cniinlr.v colleclively. and individ¬ ually, can best aid in the effort to ren(i(*r material help lo tho bombed civil population of Great Hritain. wiil he discussed at the forthcoming -Hlh Annual Con¬ vention of the Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America, lo be held in Cincinnati   on   Sept.   Blh-Dth.   in
TO iHSCUSS PAIyKSTINE A fin WORLD SCENK
Dr. .Slcphcn 8. Wlw, form¬ er president of the Zionist Oi- gnnlzatinn of Anierira, and president of thp American .lew¬ ish r*>ngre»H, will lieiiver an Important address on Piiles- llne and (lie world scene al Ihe forty-fourth annual conven¬ tion of (he 9!ionis( Organiza¬ tion dnring (he session on Sun¬ day afternoon, SepI. 7, It was announced thin week. In his speech. l>r. Wise is expected (o deal with pos(-war Issues relating (« Palestine and the .lewish people ond (he rol«» which American Zlonlsls most assume in the prcsen( emer¬ gency.
TO   BE  (iUBST  SPKAKEK AT HADAH8AH TEA
truth is that the learned judge In.sists on getting that famous '"'''. ''anctions newspaper becau.se he considers against Ihe Jews its trross-word puzzles the world's best . . . FVom the erudite Man- che-ster Guardian we gamer this definition of Nazis, singu¬ lar and plural . . . One Nazi, the Guardian declares, is a common nuisance . . . Two Nazis are a putsch . . . Three Nazis signify a non-aggre.s.sion pact a-bornlng . . . And four Nazis constitute a full-scale Invasion . . Then there is the incident reported hy the Shell Magazine of London . . . Hitler, it seems was pacing up and down his lofty terrace at Bercbtesgaden rehearsing the speech with which he was plan¬ ning to launch his offen.sive peace terms . . Across the .startled Bararlan valley he shouted a rhetorical question: "Who is freeing the great world'.'" (He was orating in German, of course, so that what he actually said was "Wer be- treit die gross Weil?")
an   address   Ijy Rev,   Maurice Perlzwelg, noted Jewish leader
country.
Rev. Perlzweig's address will be part of a symposium on. "Pro¬ jects for Districts", which will be held under Ihe Chairmanship of Mr. Irving D. Lipkowltz, head ot the Z O. A. Finance Committee. The olher projects lo be presented include ''Vaad Bitachon", hy Mr, Louis P. Ilocker. ZOA. Treasurer; Hoc- halutz, by Hon. Mordecai Kono- witz, member of the .'National Z. 0 .^. Executive; President's Chapter, by Rabbi Samuel Coop¬ er, Chairman of the Ohio Val¬ ley Region; and Jewish Nation¬ al Fund, by Mr. Abraham H. Cohen, Chairman of the nation¬ al J. N. F. Commlltee of the Z. O. A.
The addresses wiii lie followed l)y di.scussions with key District people participating. The sym¬ posium on Disirict Projects will be one of four .symposia that will comprise the fourth session ot the Convention on Monday, September Sth. Al the conclu slon of each symposium a com mittee wiil be appointetl Io pre pare a report lo be submitted to the delegates at the Tuesday .session of the Convention
Mrs. S.  Bniverman
Mi-s. Sigmund ILibi)yl Braver- And' man, of Cleveland, will be honor- as he made a dramatic pause' ed guest and speaker at a tea a subver.sive echo taunted:j which will open the activities "Booseveil!" . , Nothing daunt-, of the Columbus Chapter ot Ha- ed, Adolf continued with his dassah next Tuesday, Sept. 0, at declamation:   "Who  will  dictate 2:1)0   p.   m.,   at   the   Ea.st   Broad
peace?"  (In German: "Wer dlk- tiert den Frieden?"! . . . Where¬ upon   the   echo   stiuelched   him with: "Eden!" STAGE AND HCREEN
The late Countess de Portes, whose influence is blamed for former French Premier Paul Reynaud's resignation in favor of Hitler's  Pet'n'Darlan,  Is  be-
Street Temple. She has chos¬ en tor her subject "Keep 'Em Flying", a timely discussion ol world events that will Interest every Jewess in our community. Mrs. Braverman, educator, so¬ cial worker and author, has ap¬ peared In Columbus before, and her stimulating delivery, as well as the wealth of facts In her sub¬ ject matter, have brought con
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ner  in   tlie  new   picture  she's| tlnuous    requests    for    her re¬ making in Hollywood . - , War-| appearance,
(Cootinued on ?««• 8) A  past president of the  cen-
VICHV (W.\Si Wlrlespread ip[)rehension w;is fell in .lewish (lUJirters here as Ihe aged .Mar¬ shal I'etain, continuing his pro- Nazi course, nameti the :inti- .Semitic French l.cgion nf War Veterans the sole legal political pany  in  iinnccujiied  France.
Dropping all pretenses of de¬ mocracy and liberalism. Marshal retain (iecUu'ed Ihiit henceforth the French "nation.'il revolntion" will look for supj)ort to the FYench Legion, which presum- ;tbly will play the sjime role in France as the Nazi [larly in Ger many and the Kjtscist parly in Italy.
The French l.cgion of War \'cterans and Volunteers of the Xationid itevolution. which em- braces the country's most anti- Semitic ;ind reactionary ele¬ ments, wil! be charged with the re.-^ponsii)lity of silencing critics anti "sabnteurs" of the pro-Nazi regime.
Tile announcement of the French "national revolution" was accomptmied by a tighten¬ ing of anti-.Iewish deci-ees, giv¬ ing i-ise to tears in -lewish cit^ cles that the recent police raids in Jewish districts were only a forerunner ot an organized, Government-sponsored a n t 1- Jewlsh campaign.
These fears were heightened when the Nazi press In Paris de¬ manded; , yigtirous I anti-JewlEt) aietl6n;''cWai:glrig %*at the^'tmnte ing unrest in France which re¬ sulted In the shooting of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deal, the country's two leading pro-Nazi collalxirators, could be traced to the Jews.
IJ>espite the fact that the men arrestetl for the shooting were non-,)evvish followers of the Free French leader General Charles de Gaulle, the Nazi press demanded the estiibiishmenl in both occupied and unoccupied France of special ghettos for Ihe
.lews ¦ The Nazi press suggest¬ ed that the ,lewish gbeltos in Wtu-.saw and Lublin probably the most overcrowded in all N;izi-controlled Europe, be u.sed as examples.
I'olice raids and confiscation of .lewish-ownetl enterprises are continuing, with additional thousands of French ,Iews of military age arrested and sent to special labor camps. New de¬ crees speeded up the "liquida¬ tion" of .lewish businesses.
The Vichy Government auth¬ orized Xavler Vaiiat, Commis¬ sioner for .lewish Affairs, to ap¬ point "Aryan" administrators for all .lewish enterprises, with powers either to manage the ,Iewlsh firms or lo sell them. Many of the Jewish firms will he sold, it was indicated, with part of the proceeds going lo the .lewish owners, the remainder for the creation ot a relief fund fnr poor Jews in France, (Past experience, however, permits us to add that the Jewish enter prises will he sold at a fraction of Iheir actual value.)—The Edi lor.
Meanwhile. Dr Ernst, Nazi commissioner tor Strasbourg, re¬ ported al a meeling of the Ger¬ man Academy that "more than 100,000 Frenchmen and Jews have been expelled from Alsace" since the signing ot tjie armis¬ tice lak'.year, A slunUat- num¬ ber: ihave_ Seen • expelled .from :£6l!Rrind>'i}Ul;lnjfilho-r-'~'» ""- iod.
Jewish dttUea hbie were shocked by Ih* arrtst bf Varlah M. Fry, head of the American Aid Center at Marseilles, an or ganizatlon working among refu¬ gees, on the grouJids that he was "pro-Jewish and anti-Nazi." Mr. Fry, well-known to refu¬ gees here of all faiths, was or- deretl to leave France Immed¬ iately. Many refugees owe their lives 10 the efforts ot the Amer¬ ican refugee worker.
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tral Stales Region of llada.ssah, she is now serving as re-elected president of the Jewish Relig¬ ious Teachers' Association ot Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. She is Director of Exten.sion Activities of the Kuciid Avenue Temple,   (Cleveland
A Rosh Hashonah reading "Hear the Shofar's Call", will lie given hy Mrs. Irving J. Stone- Hostesses for the lea will be Mrs. Martin J. Polster. hospital¬ ity chairman; Mrs. Louis Ruben, co-chairman; Mrs. 1! F Levin¬ son, Mrs. Joseph Cohen. Mrs. Sam Wasserstrom and Mrs. Lau¬ rence Polster.
The opening prayer will lie given by  Mrs.  N. Zelizer
Show your mpprecUtlon to tbe Cbronide't £0 years ol loyal and de¬ voted aerrlce to Colombai Jewlih Oommtihlty br l»rlnir your •nbaorlp- tion BOW-iS.se imr ibo year.
AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE "FRONT FOR HITLER" JEWISH WAfi VETS PARLEY TOLD
Bl'FFALO (WNS) — Prof. .lames II. Sheldon, chairman of the hoard ot directors of the Non-Sectarian Anll-.Nazl Lea' gue. told more titan 2,000 dele¬ gates attending the -Kith annual convention of tbf.' Jewish War Veterans of the United Slates thai the Ameritia First Commit tee was "a front for Adolf Hit ler."
Prof. Sheldon charged that Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Geraltl P Nye were attempting to smear American Jews through a Congressional. Investigation of allegeii war propaganda in mo¬ tion pictures hy calling only Jewish producers to testify at the hearings.
'I'he former member of the Boston University faculty charg¬ ed al.so that Charies Lindbergh, spokesman for the Ameritra I-'irsl Commlltee, had repeated¬ ly refused reiiuests that he de¬ nounce Hitler and the Nazi per- .sei-ution of minorities.
"11 is not necessary to analyze Ihe literature of the America First Committee lo discover wiihin it the innuendoes against the Jews, the attacks upon the democratic leaders In America and England and the other signs of the regular Hitler 'line'," Prof.
Sheldon told the as,sembled Jew¬ ish war veterans,
"It is not necessary to point fo the number of prominent directors of the Committee who head companies which have tremendous economic stake.s In Germany," he said. "To prove that the America Firsl Commit¬ tee is a front for Hitler, It is only necessary to go to one of its meetings."
In a message to the conven¬ tion. President Roosevelt declar¬ ed: "With much ol the worid given over to conflict and strife, it is comforting to know that here in America our citizens (Continued  on  Page B)
N. y. AFL OONVBN'nON CONDEMNS    ANTI-SBMlnSM
NEW VORK (WNS)—Resoiu tions condemning anti-Semitism and discrimination because of race or color in emplo>ment were adopted at the closing ses slon ot the 78th annual conven lion of the New ITork State Federation ol Lalxjr. The dele gales passed the resolutions after Thomas J. Lyons, Presi¬ dent of the Federation, attack ed "those who preach religious or   racial   discrimination"