Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1943-02-19

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lilW// Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community \jP^
Voli 22, No. 8
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1943
Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere^ B,v Phinoas .1. Blron
Colored Leader Says Race Hatred Hinders Nations Victory
PROMINENT RABBI TO HPEAK IN COLUMBUS TUESDAY, MARCH 2,'J
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1^ Quentln Reynolds reports that General Dwlght Elsenhow- . er (whose much-publicized nick¬ name, we remind you, la Ike) Ukos to tell the, story of how hlB brother Milton, Who holds a posi¬ tion in the Officer Procurement System, squelched one of Wash¬ ington's snooty dowagers . . . The lady, It seems, remarked; "¦What a wonderful family the Eisenhowers are—one brother died at Bataan; one is In charge of the Army In Europe, and you have a big Job here in Washing¬ ton .. . You're a great family— what a pity you're Jewish! . . , Whereupon Milton Elsenhower retorted: "Madam —what a pity we're not!" ... All of which should be a lesson to Air Cadet Bernard Epstein of Yonker.s, who has changed his moniker to a 'less Jewish-sounding handle iiecause he's afraid that If his plane Is shot down over Ger¬ many he'd be badly treated by the NazLs because of his Jewish name . . . We haven't, for that matter, noticed any name-chang¬ ing operation undertaken by Bombardier Meyer Levin and others like him . .~i
nSzti stuff ...
1^ All this recent speculation about whether or not Hitler Is dead recalls the story of how 1 the Fuehrer long ago Issued in- r-.R(f uotlons that on hla death his ^ Brain should be dissected by his . favorite scientist — presumably to enable jrosterity to have a rec¬ ord of the exact degree to which Adolf's grey matter Is addled . - Hitler says, Winchell, is losing on the ground in Russia in the air over Germany and on the sands of Africa — but he seems to score an occasional vlctoi-y In Congress . . . The Nazis, It Is re¬ ported, are trying to pprsuade the people of Paris to Include rats In their diet — Which we view as plain propaganda for cannibalism . . .
TRANSATLANTIC . . .
^ It isn't only explosive and in¬ cendiary bombs that Allied planes drop over Europe these days . . . The occupied lerrlior- les also get ciulte a lot ot propa¬ ganda bombs In the form of . films, whk-h the anil-Nazl ele¬ ments use for undercover show¬ ings . . .' Rene Blum, brother of France's one-time premier Leon Blum, received the doubtful ccimpiiment of heing asked by the Nazis to present a ballet for them Iho was the director of the Montu Carlo Ballet, you remem¬ ber i . . When he rofu.sed, he wa.^ sent off lo a concentration camp in Poland, We hear . . . As for 1,00)1 Blum himself — iHilhing at all has lieun heard of him of lalo, nor of George Mandel, member of the last Froncii caijinei bofore the fall of France ...
BOSTON (WNS) — Pointing out that racial hatred "curses not only our own country but stands l>etween the United Na¬ tions and ^ victory because of what has been done to people because they are colored In In¬ dia, Malaya, Burma, Africa and the West Indies", Walter White, Secretary of the National As¬ sociation for the Advancement of Colored People; declared in a Lincoln's Day address that the Only way In which disaster can be averted Is by a "re-dedlcatlon of ourselves to the spirit of Lincoln, not for the sake of mlnorlUes alone, but In enlight¬ ened Interesi of all Americans", Mr. White, speaking at Tem¬ ple Israel at a special Inter- Racial Service, continued: "Un¬ less we begin to find a solution, not after the war, but right now, to this question of race not only in our own country, but through¬ out Ihc world. It is conceivable that we shall- not win this war, but instead, we shall merely pur¬ chase for ourselves a brief in¬ terlude between this war and an even more disastrous one.
"Lincoln", .lald Mr, White, "would be willing. If not anx¬ ious, to return to his grave If he returned now to see how little his advice had been heeded. He would be even more reiidy to return to the shadows were he to see that racial hatred for which he gave up his life, today curses nof only our own coiin- try but stands between the Unlr ted Nations and victory"'.
Dr. Joshua Loth-Liebman, rab¬ bl of Temple Israel, shared the pulpit with Mr- White. The Lin¬ coln Day Inter-Raclal services were held by Temple Israel in (Continued on Page 8)
ONDERGROUNO REPORT BARES NAZI MURDER OF THE THREE MILLION JEWS IN POLAND
NEW YORK  (WNSV — Rela-'"Germans organized actual hunt- tlvely few of the 3,000,000 Jews  Ing parlies to shoot down by the
Avbo were in Poland before the
I)r. Israel Goldstein
Tuesday, March 23rd, will be a' red letter day for the Colum¬ bus Zionist District- It will mark the culmination of the most successful drive for mem¬ bership ever undertaken by the local group. Over 150 new mem¬ bers aro to he Inducted at that time at a public meeting In which Columbus Jewry Will be Invited to participate.
The affair, which Is to be held In the Deshler-Walllck 'Hotel Ballroom, will have as Its great¬ est attraction one o£ the out- atanding conservative Rabbis in AmerleajiDr, -Israel Goldstein of Ne#!i'?brk Ciltyi''"'HlB'Jflessagpii the first In Columbus, should prove of vital Importance to every Jew and Jewess, Zionist and non-Zlonlst as well. All affil¬ iated Zionist organizations will join in arranging the program for this event.
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Nazi occupation of that counlry are still alive, according to an unrtergrouild report smuggled nut of Nazi-occupied Poland hy a former member of the German- organized Polish police force and made public this week by the Jewish Labor Committee.
The antl-Nazl agent who brought Ihe report out of Poland Is a secref courier of the United Polish Underground Organiza¬ tions, it was disclosed. The re- ixirt emphasized that "it ia no longer a question of oppressing Jews but of their complete ex¬ termination by all kinds of especially devised and perfect¬ ed methods of plain torture'".
"In the cily of Otwock", the report said, "the enllre Jewish population numbering .'1,200. was murdered hy two German com panics In the nighl between mid¬ night and H o'clock the follow¬ ing morning". Even before the mass murder which began in Ihc middle of .Inly, 1042. con¬ ditions in tho War.saw ghetto were desperate. "The hunger was so great thai people became craze<l. They refused to share their crumbs. Children would permit , ihelr old parents to starve tb death. There was nothing left lo share".
The report drew a grim pic¬ ture of Nazi atrocities directed against.young  boys  and  glrls.j they die'
thousands the children roaming
the .'ilreets of the ghetto, whose parenl.'j had been either mur¬ dered nr had starved of hunger. Like beasts, the Germans comb¬ ed the ghetto during the day, dragging children out of their homos or off the streets and shooting them before the ghetto gates. The Nazi authorities dislrlbulo arms to the Hitler youlh — and boys of 15 and 16 come Ihrough the ghetto In hordes, .fhoollng down all who cro.ss their path". The report added that German soldiers and Gestapo men visit the ghetto to teat Ihelr marksmanship.
Tho grealesi ma.ss killings of i .lows, houover, wore said to have started on July 8, last year, when "Squads for the Destruc- tlnn of ,lews" (Juden Vernlch- uings Kolnnnen) were Introduc¬ ed. Wilh the destruction squads carrying out their "liquidation" arllvlt^io.^. "Hireel after street, city after city, are completely oiniitiod of ,lcws". Another meth- ocl of disposing of great num- hois of .lows is the deportation system. ;"K\cry day one can see Ihoiistiniis of Jews being led from the concentration points to the trains", the .report says. "On various pretexts dozens are shot during the march so as 'to
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IN PROGRAM OF JEWISH MUSIC HERE MONDAY
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sticking to liioir artistic iiriii- ciples . . . Critic George Jean has jtisl refused In coiisidor a pro¬ posal lo become a ratiio com¬ mentator, and iiuol Robert has turiied-ilowu a Hollywood offer. . Goiiriide -Slein, Ihe fuiuris- tic writer who couldn't be per¬ suaded lo leave France in I'.MO, Is reported lo be in that unhappy country still — and we do hope that when the time comes for here memoirs of these troubled (Continued on Page 8)
RED GROSS APPEALS FOR BLOOD DONORS
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present Indications a crowd will be on hand next Monday evening, Feb. 22, at tlu- Ilroad Si. Temple when the two disiinguished . tirlists, Susie .Michael and Maurice l'"rlcilnuin. present tiieir origin¬ al ¦Cx/viilcade of .leu ish Music' 'rhey arc being brought here uiiiicr llle auspices of /.ion Lodge,  li'nai  Ii'rilh.
.-\i-tlsls I'iihiiic 'rln-sc ai-il..ts lia\e holh had remarkable careers. llurn in I'ni'liand, Oregon, a piano prod¬ igy at four, Susie Michael cap- lured numerous scholarships Willi the world's great maslers, among whom were Siglsmond Stiij^vskl of New 'i'ork and 'Vic. |-'-^onoroii tor lleinze of Chicago.   But  ob   '
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Events In Africa this week have prompted the American Hed Cross to appeal for volun- leers to give a pint of blood for life-saving transfnsinn.s. Thou.s¬ ands of men have already been saved, who otherwise surely would have died. Plasma does not require ty|iing, permits transfusions to he made during actual battle emergencies. At Pearl Harbor no injured man who was hospitalized was lost. .-\t Guadalcanal all onsualtlos ro- Kullcd 111 less than 1% I'aUilUlos. Here are some (pieslions and ttnswcrs on this mosl worthy effort.   ¦
WHO (AN UK A VOIA NTARV DONOH'.' Any healthy man or ^\¦oman between 21 and (it); minors from 18 to 21 will be accepted wilh their parents' wrillen consent. HOW LONG DOKS l« TAKE? About five 10 len minutes, but vnu will he in the Center about i;li niimiles, for pbysictii exam¬ ination before and rofresh- iiH-iiis afior vniii- donalion. WHO WILL .TAKK (HAItGK OK mi: WHILK I MAKi: MV l)0\.-\TION'.' Only graduate lih.vsii-iaiis and registered luiiscs   iiiulci-   the   competent
donation  we ask you to wait twelve weeks, ao that you do not   donate  more    than    five limes in any one year. Help   replace   the   blood   our fighlliig  nien  are  shedding  for _\'ou.    Go at once to the Coium¬ bus Hlood Donor Center, 180 N. High St.. or call MAin 3307.
Hadassah Shipped 300,000 Tons To Palestine
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NEW YOKK (JPS) — Since October, 10-12 the Hadassah or¬ ganization lias shipped lo Pal¬ estine 100.000 tons of food and 200,000 tons of modlcainents and similar articles, it was reported to the National Hoard of Ha¬ das.sah al a .seini-annual meel¬ ing here by Mrs, Alexander Dushkin, who lauded the co- operalinn of the I'nited States gnM'iiimeiit ill nuiking the ship¬ ments possible.
The lioard went on record as eiidnrsing the forthcoming Aiiierieaii .lewisii Assembly whieh Iiadassali helped to or¬ ganize recently af Piitshurgh. It also adopted a resolution con- ileniniiig the American Council I'or .ludaism. an aiiti-Zionisi rali-
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,     ALBANY, N.  V.  (JPS)  — So ¦ ¦thaf,lews would he spared vio- , lalion of the Rosh Hashanah and ; Vom   Kippur   hQlidays„ Gover- I niM' Thomas E. Dewey has asked the Lcgisjature to shift the reg- I istratlon days for the fall elec¬ tions. Ordhiarily fliey would oc¬ cur on the dates of these high holidays.
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