Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1942-08-07

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COIiUMBL'B, OHIO, FRIBAY, AUGUST 7, 1042
D.Toted   to   Anerlemn •nd   Jewlih   Idemla
Strictly Confidential
Tldblta From Brerynhere By Phlneas J. Blron
IN THE WIND
Thanks to ihe Jewish Wel¬ fare Board for listing the out¬ standing Jewish heroes in the present war . . . Corporal Meyer Levin, I,t.-Commandcr Solomon S. Tsquith, Ensign Stanley Cap¬ lan and Ensign Ira Jeffrey are among them . . . Truly a list that every American should know by heart. . . Among the narnes men¬ tioned for the Governorship of Puerto Rico is that of Dr. Her¬ man B, Baruch, who is an expert on Caribbean questions though his name is not as well known as that of his brother, Bernard M. Baruch . . . THIS AND THAT
What impelled the New York Daily News, largest-circulation daily tabloiti in the country, to fume so against immigrants In a recent editorial? . . . Such an un-American policy should not go unnoticed .. . Pierre van Paas¬ sen recently had to use a strik¬ ing" argument to convince an anti-Semite that racial and re¬ ligious intolerpncie has no place in our democracy ... Those Washington quarters that were most vociferous against Melvyn Douglas OCD' appointment some months ago are again complaining loudly now that he is taking time off|
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Says Native Fascists Are America's Worst Enemies
NEW YORK (WNS)—Follow¬ ing the round-up of the 28 pro- Nazis and anti-Semites charged wilh conspiring to Impair the morale of the country's armed forces, Carey Lx)ngmire, radio commentator, warned this week that native Fasists "are the worst enemies this country has."
"They hate President Roose velt," Mr. Longmire said. "Many say he started the war by 'threatening' Hitler and Hirohito, They hate Jews, Negroes, labor unions and a lot of other things. They claim they hate Hitler, too, but they're working for him, even if they may not know it
"Suppose Hitler smashes on to victory over Russia. lie can or¬ ganize all Europe to work for, him. The war might be in a sort of stalemate for years. What would our home-grown Fascists be doing then? Just the same as the French Fascists did. They'd start saying: 'Why not make a deal with Hitler? He'd probably let us alone.'
"That's exactly the kind of talk Hitler wants to hear. He'd make any promise to get peace. Then he'd try to get thousands of Nazi agents working Inside America, and when he felt the time was ripe, he'd stab us in the back so quickly we might not be able to strike back."
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!tt beef about wlteh he eiiHsib in' the Air Corps, a step he's said to be contemplating very ser-l iously . . . Hollywood, incident¬ ally, is preparing a film on Thomas G- Masaryk, and is look¬ ing for an actor to impersonate the late Justice Louis D. Bran dels, who backed the Czechs' na¬ tional aspirations in the Wllsonr ian days . . .
WORLD OP LETTERS
That "Samson and Delilah Version of Elliott Paul's that we told you about quite some time ago is coming out this winter in a voiume that wiil contain six such Biblical stories retold To give you an idea what it'll be like, we may reveal that one chapter will be called "Queen Esther, the Beauty Contest Win¬ ner," ajid the whole book will be entiitled "Gospel According to' Hollywood" . . . William B. Ziff, the Chicago magazine magnate whose "Coming Battle of Ger¬ many" is considered an import¬ ant book on the question of air power in this war, is launching a new fiction magazine that will feature several full-length novels In each Issue . . . Author Lewis Browne has spent a good part of the summer traveling from Army camp to Army camp, de¬ livering lectures lo the boys in training • . . Novelist Louis Gold ing also has been doing some Army camp lecturing . . . The high spot of his lour came at Fort Dix, where, after deliver¬ ing his address, he took llme| out for some ping-pong and beat all but one of his soldier op¬ ponents . . . Louis Nizer, Ihe attorney and author, is prepar¬ ing a tome dealing wilh the sub¬ ject of whal we should do wilh the Germans after the war Novelist Franz Werfel, relates Leonard Lyons, recently was lnvit«d to attend a Refugee Din ner .. . "What?" waa the refugee author's shocked comment "Are they eating them now' ABOUT PBOPLB Professor   Albert    Einstein's;
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S^jji/iifiif Riibfiir Problem
NEW YORK (JPS)—The can¬ didate of influential Time Maga¬ zine for "the man to whom the U. S. could look for a way out of the Rubber Scandal" is Dr. Chalm Welzmann, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, according to its August 3rd is¬ sue.
Saying that Dr. Welzmann had met In Washington with "Presi¬ dential Adviser Judge Samuel I. Roseman," Time states; "Reports were that Dr. Weizmann, who did not claim to know all the facts about synthetic rubber, nevertheless knew more of them than any other one man, per¬ haps could set the record straight." The magazine sug¬ gests, in view of Dr. Welzmann's chemical achievements In the last war that "able, inventive Chalm Weizmann" would be able, through his current syn¬ thetic rubber experiments, to solve one of America's prime war problems.
VOLINER SOCIETY PICNIC TO BE HELD THIS SUNDAY
Plans have been completed for the biggest picnic in recent years by the local Voliner society This annual event, which is to be held this Sunday, Aug. 9, is open to the public with no ad¬ mission charge. ,.
The Odd Fellows Picnic Grounds, one quarter mile east of Gahanna on Route 62, has been chosen for this year's affair. It Is to be an ail day program of fun and frolic for the entire family. Five $25 war bonds are to be given away as prizes, tickets for which are selling three tor 50c.
Rubbl H. N. RosrnthnI
NKW YORK (JPS) — Ftahbi Henry N. Rosenthal, educational director of the 92nd St. Y. M. H A., has heen appoinle<l director of the new B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation to open this fall at the Sara Delano Roo.sevelt Inter- faith House attached to Hunter College, it has been announced by Henry Monsky, B'nai B'rith President. The B'nal B'rlth was primarily responsible for the estabilsiiment of the enterprise, -which will cater to all faiths. Hunter,,,College ,1b, attenided,, ;by
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HEINRICH HIMMLER COMPLETES PLANS FOR MASS "EXTERMINATION" OF POLISH JEWS
$30,000 Year Earned By N. Y. Jewish Broadcaster
NEW VORK (JPS) — The dream of every "luftmensch" to achieve success through his in¬ genuity has been realized in the case of C. Israel Lutsky, who, as "The Jewish Philosopher" dis¬ pensing pills of wisdom in Yid¬ dish on the Forward's Radio Station WEVD, earns $30,000 a year, putting him among the "big-time" earners of Anierica,n radio, it is reported by Variety, theatrical weekly.
Lutsky, .said to be the highest paid foreign language broadcast¬ er in American radio, has 15 programs a week, the principal ones of which are Contented can ned milk and Camay soap. A Ukrainian Jew, who was brought to the United States when he was 5, Lutsk.v started broadcast work many years ago. 11 was not until he cqncelved the idea of doing a Yiddish "Voice of Ex perience" that success began to come lo him. Lutsky is now do. ing so well as an announcer, newscaster and ''pbilosopber' that his brothpr, Jack Luth, de¬ votes ail his lime to the job of being his business manager.
GENEVA (JPS)—The shadow', of another hangman now lies over the Jews of Nazified Po¬ land, as reports reaching here from Wars:iw disclosed thai Helnrlch Himmler, Gestapo chief, had spent a week in the former Polish capital and had worked out detail.^ of a plan aim¬ ing at the "mass extermination" of the .lews of Poland.
Swiss corresjmndents state that the campaign of legalized murder is to be hailed as a "pun¬ itive" attempt to "pacify" rest¬ less Poland and to clear anti- Nazi guerrillas out of the coun¬ try. The .lews are alleged by the Nazis to ho the ringleaders of these saboteurs anfl are, there¬ fore, feeling Ihe weight of a reign of brutality such as the outside world is likely to disbe¬ lieve because of the immensity of ils horror.
The Nazi Governor of Lublin, Herr Zorn, announced that 2(>,- 000 Jews recently transferred to Maidan Tatarsky ha<l all been shot. Xn Rgdom, 47 .lews were slain. All German Jews who had recenlly been deixirled to Minsk from R. A. F.—^ravagetl Ham¬ burg were reported shot to death.
The Swiss newspapers publish¬ ing these reports declare that as many as 110,000 Jews have lost their lives in Poland during the ,last,,two mc)pthSi,alone,, ¦'-These-; wholesale i ^'punlUve'; executions are apart from the indlscrlmihiite pogroms of Jews which the Nazis initiated in the Warsaw ghetto during the past t^o weeks. Bands of Black Storm Troopers are raiding the streets of the Warsaw ghetto, ar¬ resting Jews for "deportation," a new Nazi term for execution. Jews protesting against their ar¬ rest are shot on  the spot.
In Warsaw and throughout Poland the de.spair that has grip¬ ped the Jews is unprecedented ince the Nazis first invaded the land. Wholesale family suicides are frequently reported. Their persecutors are not orty the im¬ ported Storm Troopers ot Ger¬ many but Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian Fascists who have been given this special as¬ signment of dealing with "anti- Fascists." ,
According to the Nazi version, which is reported in the Swed¬ ish press, the "deportation" of .lews to unspecified destinations has started on a large scale in Warsaw. Lodz and other cities which Germany has decided to annex to the Third Reich.
An illu.stratlon of the brutal¬ ity with which the Nazis treat the Jews shipped to Poland Is provided by a Stockholm news¬ paper, which reports that on March 2fith 145 German Jews were pul on a sealed freight train destined for Pinsk. Owing to starvation, congestion, expos¬ ure and unhygienic conditions typhus broke out among the ex¬ iles.
Instead of removing the few typhus cases trom the car, the Nazis left It standing on a track at a small village near Brest-Ll- tovsk, with the words "Danger— Tjiphus—^Don.'!;, Touch,", prmpln.-
peasants of the vlllage''teportea'- to the Nazi authorities that a terrible stench was coming from the van. A few days later Ger¬ man sappers opened the locked vehicle and found all 145 exiled Jews dead and in advanced stages of decomposition. All the iKxlies were burned in one funer¬ al pyre.
Call For Workers In Advanced First Aid
Mrs. Robert Levy, 78 S. Drexel Ave., dislricl leader of the Bex¬ ley Emergency Medical Corps under Ohio Civilian Defense aus¬ pices, has Lssued a call for work¬ ers trained in advanced First Aid. Those not yet having this training are urged to sign up for classes as soon as possible.
The Bexley Corps met Monday evening at Bexley High School at which time Dr. C. C. Sher- bourne explained the extreme necessity of forming such units, Mrs. Levy pointed oul the patrio¬ tic duty Involved and is request ing volunteers to call her for further informalion at FA. 8420.
Paper Becomes Official Organ Of Jewish Community
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WILLS $0(1,000 TO THREE UNIVERSITIES
NEW YORK (JPS)—Columbia, Princeton and Harvard Univer¬ sities will each receive $30,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Ludwig Stross of| New York, it was announc-ed here by the executors of the estate. Mrs. Stross, who died on July 18th, left an estate val¬ ued at some $310,000. Her be¬ quests to the universities were largely for cancer research.
DETROIT (JPS)—An innova tion in English-Jewish journal¬ ism has been announced hy the Jewish Welfare Federation of' Detroit, which has accepted the Jewish News, local English-Jew¬ ish weekly, as its offical publlca tlon for its 18,000 subscribing! Jewish families.
The pledge form of the Allied Jewish Campaign of Detroit has been revised so that every con trlbutor to the drive automati¬ cally subscribes lo the publlca tion.
PeUey Says Some of His Best Friends Are Jews
INDIANAPOLIS UPS) .— Chanilng the old, old refrain of all anti-Semites, William Dudley Pelley, Silver Shirt leader de¬ clared al his sedition trial here that "1 have many Jews as friends" and that he is nol ami- Semitic, in spite of his long career as a Jew-bailing rabble- rou.ser and editor of a Jew-hat¬ ing newspaper, the Galilean.
Denying that he has heen se¬ ditious, insisting that he is a patriot, rejecting the charge thai he is anti-Jewish. Pelley swerved sharply from his long acknowledge<l anti-Semitic stand when he said: "I have never held any animus against individual Jews. 1 have many Jews as friends. But i condemn those general practices of the Jewish race as they apply lo oui civili¬ zation and way of life." He ac¬ complished what most anti-Sem¬ ites do when he linked Judaism with Communism when he sta¬ ted that "Judaism and Commun¬ ism are synonymous. Rabbl Stephen Wise brags about it. I've found that the Conununlst movement is a plot of leaders of world Jewry to control the Gen¬ tile world." It was at this point that the Judge halted him With the admonition not to deliver a speech on the witness chair.
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