Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-08-14

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^LM   Serving Columbus and Central Ohio
Jewish Communily \\7AR
Strictly Confidential
Tidbit* Prom Everywhere By  Phlneas J. Blron
WE'RE TKIAANd \0V
fe That heating which Nazi sympathizers a<iTTiJni.stereri to Wakio Franlt in Buenos Aire.s will have one .salutary effect . .
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Boake Carter Becomes .\ Jew, Yiddish Writer States
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of how far the Argentine i.^ from being convinced that our good neighbor policy i.s betier than the Nazi new order . . . The fact is — and this has long been an open secret in weli-informed Washington circles — that Nazi fifth coUiinnists have outmano- uvred us and nullified our efforts toward a diplomatic rapproche¬ ment wilh Argentina ... It was Frank, rather than some other American good will envoy, who was chosen for attack becau.se he is a .Jew, a circumstance in which the Fasci.st groups of II A. saw an opportunity to claim that no insult was meant to "Americans" . . . The truth is Ihat outside of the Nazi espion¬ age and sabot aji^e cohorts no one in H. A. ever considerc<l Waldo Frank a .Jew . . . WAR KCHOKS
fe In Washington they're whi.s- pering that the plan which will finally be adopted to ward off inflation will be the one devised by that grand old man, Bernard M. Baruch , . . Note to the Zion¬ ist leaders of the future; How .about looking into that new course Columbia University Is offering to train experts to lielp in the post-war rehabilitation and administration of territories which the United Nations may liberate? .. . Since "students will be required to specialize in a re¬ stricted geographic area," those who are interested in that type of work for Palestine here have a fine chance to prepare for it . . . How many of you remember that back in 1923 Lawrence A. Steinhardt — whose present po¬ sition as American Ambassador to Turkey grows more delicSte with every advance the Nazis make into the Caucasus — .serv. ed as secretary of the Israel ZangwiJI Reception Commitlee, which welcomed the great Eng¬ lish Jewish author when he vis¬ ited America that year!' . . . Hati off to restaurateur Arnold Reu
NKW VOBK (.IPS)—in a start¬ ling "revelation" in the For¬ ward. Yiddi.sh daily, it is .said that Iloake Carter, famous jour¬ nalist, .syndicated columnist and radio commentator, often charg-
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hour finds twenty service men sitting at one of his tables, consuming the famed Heuben delicacies —on the hou.se . . . It's the Manhattan USO whicli decides who the lucky boys are lo he . . . We're told that Ur. Chaim VVeizmann's ar¬ tificial rubber process will prob¬ ably be ignored when the con¬ tracts are passed oul . . lylTKKAKV .\OTKS
fe Forlhcoming books for which you should keep an alert eye peeled include 'Army I^ife," by Pvt. E. J. Kahn, and "tletween Hitler and Mussolini." by Prince Ernst R. Starhemberg . . . Which reminds us to point oul that Musso probably didn't ap- predate Pal Adolf's thoughtful¬ ness in sending a congratula¬ tory telegram on the oc-casion of the Duce's recent birthday . . . Benito likes to think of himself as youth incarnate—iirui that anniversary marited his entry into his sixtieth year . . . The word-coiners are hard at work trying to create a catchy nick¬ name for the Army's tanks . . . "Hitler hearses" is one attempt, while another is "anzers"--thia because they're the answers to Hitler's panzers ... Any day now (Continued on Page Eight)
for the past yeau, an Orthodox .lew oltserving all the precepts of .ludaism.
A. Almi. veleran Yiddish jour¬ nalist and one of the few men who knew of the reputed con¬ version of Hoake Carter, Is said to have been i>ermilted by Car¬ ter to make the revelation, Ije- cau.se the staff of the New 1'ork Daily Mirror and PM, New York daily, had charged Carter with lieing pro-Axi.-.
Denying that Carter is cilli er pro-Axis or anti-Semitic. Almi writes: "The tnith of the matter is thai lioake Carter, for a year has heen an Orthodox, religions .Jew, who observes the laws of Kashruih. the Sabbath an<l all .Jewish holidays. And not only he alone, hut his allraclive, in¬ telligent wife, Dorothy, who (like CarlerJ comes from Chris¬ tian stock. His sister Sheila is also a .lewess.
"When one enters the Carter home in Lotig Island one feels that the residents are Orthodox .lews.
l\lore: Doake Carter does not saiisfy himaelf with acting as a Jew. He fights for Judaism at every opportunity. Together with his closest friend and co¬ worker, Rabbl David Horowitz, he fights for kosher food in Ihi Army, he fights against mission¬ ary proselytizing activity and he fights against anti-Semitism. Delving into the background of the .strange case, Almi alleges that Carter was converted to Judaism because of two men" Rabbi David Horowitz, wiio leads a group called '"The Bible in the Hand of Its Creators," and a .Jew from Jerusalem, call. ed Moses Gevuri, considered by his followers another Moses.
Carter, a former member of the "British Israelites," believes that the British people, the Scandinavians and the Amerl- can.s were of Ihe lost Ten Tribes of Israel.   As a result of the in
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE SPENT $9,285,650 TO AID JEWS IN 52 COUNTRIES
I. W. (;arek
On next Wednesday, August KUh, 1. W. C.arek, well known communal worker and jiresifienl of District No. 2. li'nai B'rilh. will emtark on an extended visi¬ tation of some 7.5 lodges, repre- senting over Ifi.OtH) memiiers in the eight states of Ohio, Indiana. Kan.sas, Missouri, New Mexico. Colorado, Wyoming and Ken¬ tucky. His wife, Ann, will ac¬ company him on his long jour¬ ney.
As a token of esteem and the high regard local B'nai B'rith hold for this leader of the Dis
trict; Zion Lodge  N0.-.62-aiui >~^e. statctwent,
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Oevuri, he iiecame an Onhoilox Jew. Almi reports that the Ue- vuri teachings wilj .soon be is¬ sued in two volumes.
That Boake Carter, with Rab¬ bi Horowitz, went lo Dr. David de Sola Pool, Chairman of the Army and Navy Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board, lo ask that Jewish soldiers in the I'. K. army lie allowed to gel ko¬ sher food, was also told tiy Almi in the Forward story.
For many years Uoake Carter, who had criticized President Roosevelt during most of his White Hou.se career, had lieen conKidere<l a supixirier of the Anglo-Saxon League. At one time he issued a pamphlet in which he denie<i reports that he was an anti-Semite.
KEI'OKT A.\TI-JKW1SH I.\tIDENT8   IN   BOMBAY
LONDON (JPS)—The German alleges that incidents of anti- Jewish character have occurred in the ar^li-Brilish rioting in Bombay-, with the result llial British authorities are guarding Jewish homes there.
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members of the Executive Ciofn-j mittee recently presented Mr. Garek an appropriate gift in the form of luggage for his journey through the states.
Columbus is indeed proud of ils B'nai B'rith lodge and the contributions it has made lo the leadership of this great frater¬ nal organization. Outslanrting among them is our own E. J. Schanfarber who served as pres¬ ident of the district in 1!)21-1!)22 and Justin L. Sfllman in l!)35-'3(l. Rablii Joseph E. Kornfeld, for¬ mer spiritual leader of the Bry¬ den Road Temple, also headed this District in I!ll4-ini5.
In its history of over 77 years. Zion Lo<ige has done much lo preserve and strengthen our Jewish communily. Within re¬ cent years in particular it has come Increasingly to assume a position worthy of its status as the local unit of the oldest inter national Jewish fraternal organi zalion in the world. There should be a sincere hope that it may continue to contribute in increasing measin-e for many years to come.
Mr. Garek will first visit the coast for a week before he be¬ gins his itinerary of the West¬ ern lodges. The Chronicle will from week to week keep readers posted on the cities he  visiie<i  by him.
NKW VORK (WNS)— The American .Jewish .Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee, one of the three relief agencies supported by tl- United .Jewish Appeal, spent a total of $i).2R.'i,(i.'in during l.')41 and the first five months of in.l2 to aid rlo.sc 10 a million .Jews in ,")2 countries on five continents, ac¬ cording to the JDC annual report made public this week.
The annual  report, which de- scrilx'd Ihe JDC's life-.saving pro¬ gram throughout the world em¬ phasized   (hat   "America's  entr.y into the war did not find the JDC unprepared."     During   (he   six months following Pearl  Harlior, the .IDC spent $3,41.'i.OO in cast or al the rate of $l.'!I.flO a week, "In those six months," Ihe re¬ port .saitl. "through extraordinary effort, il made possible the evacu- alien of 5.000 men, women and children from Europe, it launch¬ ed a program of sending medical .supplies   and   concentrated  food products to help many of the 2.- 000.000 Polish refugees, of whom 000,000   are   Jewi.sh,    iii Asiatic Russia; it brought many kinds of help lo 00,000 refugees in unoc- cupi€'d  France:  it  continued  to give large-scale assistance to refu¬ gees   in   Switzerland,   in   Swed en,in Portugal,in Spain,in North Africa, and it augmented and in¬ tensified its work of integrating 123,000 refugees in Latin Amer¬ ica Into their new homelands.
 .-,-ttM^ which   listed
iJDC's Ihcd^'eiailia'expiBJiaiturtiBi during the 17-month period, raji ted: "The year 1911 and the first part of 1942 were filled with world-shaking events, many of which created new obstacles in the way of bringing help to dis¬ tressed   people  oversea.s.     Thatj
it was imperative that .such help should continue was the attitude of many government leaders. In¬ cluding tbe President of the Uni¬ ted Stales."
Included in the detailed docu¬ ment is an explanation of the procedure, cslahlished in World War I when Ihe .JDC operated in the face of identiral condi¬ tions, through which the JDC is able to continue its relief oper- Tit ions in enemy and enemy-oc- :-upied countries without aiding the enem.v. Moro than a year ago. the .JI^C authorized local .Jewish relief committees in enemy countries to borrow funds from local sources to con¬ tinue their work. These loans will he reimbursed "when feas¬ ible wllhout aiding the enemy." The JOf: has already earmark¬ ed! an initial appropriation of $1,- 500,000   for  this   purpose.
An anal.vsis of the .I.I.H' pro¬ gram in 1S41 showed that 400,- 000 persons were given cash re¬ lief, 500,000 were fefi and lodgi-d, .34,000 were emigratefl and reset¬ tled, 27.000 in internmeni camps were helped, 151,000 children were cared for. 201.000 were giv¬ en mcxlical aid, 5fi,000 were given vocational training and 196,000 were given educational and cul¬ tural help.
In a preface to the report, Ed¬ ward M. M. Warburg, chairman of the JDC, now. a private in the
that the work was Ih keep&ig'-K with the standards of the hest JDC tradition, which is, in fact, the liest Jewish tradition of thai social justice which must prevail In the future world."
.MAVO (LINK (;KrS JKWISH SPIRITUAL ADVISKR
UOCIIK.STKR, MINN. (JPS) —Rablii Ralph DeKoven has lieen appointed rablii and splrit- uul adviser for patients at the Mayo Clinic, it lias tieeii an¬ nounced liy B'nai B'rith. It is reported thai some 7,500 Jewish patients are received at the fa mous hospitals here during the year Rabbi DeKoven, a grad¬ uate of the Chicago Theological College, is Orthodox. Some of his student days he spent in Pal- .r»„.a estine,   narrowly   escaping with | Fish
Loca] Jewisii Women fevited To All-Day Institute Tuesday
Price control, salvage, ration¬ ing, textiles, nutritions and ad¬ vertising in war time are .some of the topics of importance which will be (li.scu.sse<i ai the all-day instiiyie, spon.sored by the Consumer interest Commit¬ tee of the Franklin County Coun¬ cil of Defense, next Tuesday, August in, at the Deshler-Wal¬ lick Hotel.
The program is scheduled to oiien al 9:30 A. M., an<l will close at 4 1*. M. No set luncheon will lie arranged. The Sapphire and Ionian Rooms will be ojien for those who desire to eat in the hotel. One hour and a half noon recess will give ample time for luncheon and for viewing the Interesting exhibits. There will lie no registration lee. The en¬ tire program will be devoted to the war and Us affect on con¬ sumers.
When the Franklin County Council of Defense was formed last year, Mayor Floyd F. Green calkKi upon Mrs. WiJJiam Schiff, 211 S. Cassingham Rd., to .serve on that important hotly as a representiative from the kical section, National Council of Jew¬ ish Women, Mrs. Schiff is pro¬ gram chairman of the insliiuie for Consumers Interest. Other committee members are Miss Amanda Thomas, Mrs. Fenton Mrs.   Henry     Stair,    Mrs
The Council of Jewi.sh Women is appealing lo all .lewish women in Columhus and surrounding towns lo attend next Tuesday's Institute and to participate in the man,v worthwhile discus¬ sions affecting the well being of all citizens In this present world crisis.
Pope Pius Protests Mass Deportations Of Jews In France
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<;K\KVA {WNSl—Pope Pius XII. acting through the i'apal Nuncio at Vichy, registered a strong protest with Marshal Henri retain against the mass arrest.s and deportations of Jews in (K'cupied France to Eastern Europe, according to reliable re- porl.s  rt*ceivcd  here  this  week.
The Papal Nuncio was report- ed to have condemned the "in¬ human arresus and deportations" of Jew.s, and demanded assur¬ ances that Vichy would consider Ihe i)apal action in view of the ¦X'hri^tian precepts involved." The I'apal envoy expressed him¬ self us unable lo "understand the treatment accoi-ded Jewish refugees."
F'ollowing the Pope's represen¬ tation to Petain, it was reported, the \'ichy Government urged Nazi authorities in occupied France to postpone plans to de¬ port the 28,000 Jews, arrested m recent round-ups in Paris and held prisoner at a race track outside the city, to concentra¬ tion  and  labor camps  in  Nazl-
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