Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1943-12-10

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Vol. 21, No. 50    Entered as Second-Claas Matter.   PoBtottlce   Columbus,,  Ofilo.
COI.UMHUS, OHIO, PKIIIAV, DIiJCEMBEll 10, 194;t
Deroied to Azneriean Mid J«wl»h Idaali
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Brerynhere By Pblneas J. BIron
Nazis Order Mass Sterilization, Surgeons Revolt
ROOSEVEI/r IN PALKSTINE
fe Flash!. . . This i.s a real .qcoop . . , 'When the ftiU .story of the RooseveltChurchill-Stalln meet¬ ing win be made known it will be reveale<l (an<r wc hope the news doesn't break before you read this) that the American President and the British Pre- mier on their way to the con¬ ference, visited Palestine togeth¬ er .. . Both gave quite .some at¬ tention to the .lewish develop¬ ments there, agricultural and in¬ dustrial . . And thi.'! may add to the sensaional nature of the story: Weizmann and Churchiii had a long conference before the British leader went to Cairo . . . Marshal Jan Smut.s. participated in this conversation . , . Smuts, you must remember, is now Vice Premier of Britain — and a staunch supporter of Jewish Aspirations in Palestine , . But don't get us wrong , . . The White Paper has not been re¬ pealed, and pressure, public pres¬ sure Is needed now more than ever ...
BIRTHDAY PARTY ... PS Last week, In a large and ac- tlstically   furnished   New  York Apartment overlooking the Hud¬ son, a moving scene took place ..'. About nine o'clock in the eve¬ ning there gathered, in the home of Meyer and Shirley Welsgal, fifty Zionist leaders . . . -Among ;,..thEiii,;3«srfi.Steplleti.S.,Mse,.Ab; ' baKillelSllver^andNaH'UmGbia^ ¦ man , i. They had assembled to honor LQuls Llpsky on his 67th birthday . . . Harry Sherman, head- of  the  Book-of-the-Month Club and a Life-long friend of Lipsky's,  also  was   there,  and announced to the celebrant (to whom the party was a complete surprise)   that  his  friends  had arranged   to  establish  a  Louis .   Lipsky   Chair   in   the   Hebrew University  at  Jerusalem   .   .  . On tills unusual evening — made particularly    delightful    hy the famed Wei-sgal hospitality (and the liquor was fine, we' would have   you   know)—all   the   old- friends of the Xii)nist dean felt that real Zionist unity had been .   reestablished  .  . -  P-    S.:    The Chair  at  tho   University   costs .$75,000 . . . Sherman himself con tributed $10,000, and we're told that money is pouring in unsolic¬ ited. . . The $75,000 will be reach¬ ed soon ... So if you want to be in on It, send your check to Meyer   Welsgal   for   the   Louis Llpsky Chair. . . JEWISH NEW.S ... te We -still    don't    understanil why some top-notch Zionist lead¬ ers  are  opposed  to  the resolu¬ tion  sponsored   in CongiX'SS  l)y the   Emergency   Conference   to Save European Jewry . . . 'I'he re.solulon calls for a special gov ernment comnilsaion to look into tlie status of Jewi-sh refugees in Europe . . . Even if the Zionists don'ti like some of the leitders of the   Emergency   Conference,   It seems to us that it's liad policy to fight a measure that can only aleviate the plight of European Jewi-y - .. Louis Blttehberg, who has Just been appointed Editor- in-Chief of the magazine Liberal Judaism, was perhaps the first American Jew to combat Euro¬ pean   Fascism   seriously   .   .   . Twenty-five years ago he organ¬ ized a  national campaign here against   the  Fascist  regime  of Admiral    Nicholas    Horthy  in Hungary . . . Congratulations to (Cputlnued on Page 8)
Capt. Cecil Shustick Sets Up Office In Italian Cave
NEW YORK (JPS)—All health services in Holland were vir¬ tually stopped by the Occupa¬ tional authorities as Dutch .sur¬ geons refused to perform- steril¬ ization operations ordered liy the Nazis for Jewish women married to non-Jews. This is reported by the World Jewl.sh Congress office in this city and is based on a report submitted liy a prominent -Dutch resident who had arrived in London late in November. He reports that 25,000 Jewish women had al¬ ready undergone the Nazi-order¬ ed surgery.
It is not clear from the re¬ port whether some Dutch doc¬ tors acceded to the Nazi de¬ mands or whether the surgeons for this task were brought from Germany. The order was first i.ssued some months ago, At that time H,200 Dutch doctors went on strike and addressed to Arthur Sey.s.s-lnquart, Reich Commissioner for the Nether¬ lands, a statement condemning the duties Imposed upon them and describing them as in total contradiction to the code of ethics of their profession. In retaliation, the Nazis demanded that the doctors submit state¬ ments of their assets by vvhlch fines could be set tor their dis¬ obedience.
This news confirms earljer re¬ ports, that all Dutch Je^*'s¦ are Interned in concentration camps for deportation. The deporta¬ tions are at the rate of one thousand a day. The deporta¬ tion does not apply to thbse, few in number, who have certificates for immigration into Palestine. They are held In a special camp in southern Germany, penxling an exchange for German nation¬ als in Palestine. Some Dutch Jews who wer* able to give the Nazi authorities diamonds val¬ ued at 25.000 Swiss francs, were allowed to leave for Switzerland.
In a large roomy cave chiseled out of the soft limestone by the Italians and Germans south of Mignano, Italy, Capt. Cecil Shus¬ tlck, lO'l'l Bulen Ave., set up a medical detachment station safe from one of the greatest bar¬ rages ever laid down bfore ad¬ vancing American troops, Don Whitehead, A.ssoclated Pres.s correspondent with the Fifth Army, reported this week.
The cave was in sharp con¬ trast to the dental offices Capt. Shustlck maintained at ?00 S. Third St., prior to his entrance into the .service in January, lfl-(2. On a little iedge a charcoal fire was burning to take the damp chill from the air. A piece of canva.s bung oyer the opening.
As Whitehead entered, an Ital¬ ian woman was excitedly bestow¬ ing thanks and gifts of nut.s and fruit on Capt. Shustick.
He had treated her daughter for a toothache.
Capt. Shustick has been over seas since August, He was sta¬ tioned in North Africa before moving into Italy. He is a grad uat of South High and Ohio State University. His wife and 4-year-old daughter are residing with her parents in Clarksburg, W- Va.
Capt. Shustick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Shustick, 1044 Bulen Ave.
TWO IN P0U8H DIVISION nECOKATED BIT SOVIETS
Over 600 To Attend Hadassah Donor Dinner Sunday Evening
Will Rannells To Address Bryden Rd. Temple Sisterhood
The next meeting f)f the Rose K. Lazarus .SIsterhoofJ will he held next Tuesday, Der. llth, 1:3(1 P. M., with a I'les.sert lunch eon in the Temple Vestry room. The opening praver will be read by Mrs. E. J. Gordon.
The guest speaker for the oc oaslon will be Prof. Will Ran nells of the Fine Arts Depart¬ ment of Ohio State University. A nationally noted artist, lllu.s trator and painter of dog por¬ traits. Prof. Rannells will dcliv er a most interesting lecture on his personal experiences with dogs, and also make several sketches which he will present to the Sisterhood.
Prof, ftannells, who formerly headed the Franklin Counlv Hu¬ mane Society has for the last four years illustrated the Life Magazine Calendar with dogs in action and a special calendar for the Buckeye Union Casualty Co. He is also noted for his animal illustrations for chil¬ dren's books.
Dec. Hth meeting is an open one, and the public is cordially invited to attend.
MOSCOW (JPS)—The title of Hero to the Soviet Union has been awarded posthimiously by the Soviet Government to Cap¬ tain Julius Hibner and Lieuten¬ ant Visotzky.
N.-iZlS' MASSACRED  ALL JEWS IN KKITCHEV, WHITE RUSSIA
MOSCOW (JPS)—The mass¬ acre of all the Jews in Krilchev, White Ru.ssia, by the Nazis, has been discovered by Red Army troops.
JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE TO SEND SUPPLIES TO RUSSIA WITHIN FEW MONTHS
NEW YORK (VVNS)—The American Jewisn Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee will send, with¬ in the next few months, about .¦ilSOO.OOO worth of essential sup¬ plies lo Soviet Russia to bo tils tril)ule<i on a n(?nsectarian tiasis in areas of predominantly Jew ish population it was announced here by the Cfjmni'ttee's hoard of directors on the eve of the tweiily-ninth annual meeting of the J DC which was held here at the Commodore and Murray Hill Hotel on December 'Ah, and at¬ tended by more than -1,000 dele¬ gates from M Slates ancl 135 Cit ies in the Un'lteii States and Canada.
Jamys N. Ito.senberg, chairman of the board of the committee, declared that the shipments will go to Russia duty free, that the expense of ocean shipment would be met by the Soviet Union and that the project was discussed With the State Depart¬ ment where it piet with "favor and sympathetic interest". It was also simultaneously disclos¬ ed that the committee has been sendingpackages containingfood, clothing and medicine from sup¬ ply bases In Palestine and Te-
Jewish' Labor Conunittee Stays In Conference
heran to the evacuees from Eastern Europe who are now In liu.ssla and that the committee wiil have spent $750,000 for this work by the end of I!)-i;i.
James H. Becker, chainuim of the national cotincii of the .IDC. reported that the conunittee had allocated more than $10,000,00(1 during IO-i:i to provide relief, re¬ habilitation, immigratioji assist¬ ance and economic tinri educa tlonal hel|) to the Jewish war and persecution viclims on five continents.
J1>C   Will  .Need  .'Hole  Than $17,00I>,0U(I In  11)44
Outiming the postwar tasks of the committee ali its 2yth an¬ nual meeting liere, Paul liaer wald, its chairman, asserted that even on the basis of the normal continuation of its work the committee's budget for 11)4,1 would require expenditures of approximately $17,000,000 as compared with the $ld,(iUO,UQO in'.the present ytar.
"It the war were to end tomor¬ row or at any other time within the year", he said, "we would be overwhelmed by demands from every corner of the globe
INEW YORK (JPS)—The Jew¬ ish Labor Committee wiil remain within the American Jewish Conference, participating in the work of all its committees, ex¬ cept the Interim Committee which is the central governing body of the Conference lietwcon full sessions. 'I'his decision, reached by the Fxecutive com mittec of the Jewish Labor Com- mitice by a vole of -15 to liK, was a comiu'omise between two oih er resolutions, one which urgeii remaining within (tie Conference hut abstaining from parlicipa tion in, the work of any of (he committees, and tuiother which proposed full participation in the Coiiftfrence. including reprcscn tation on the Interim Committee, tagiit hullots of inemliers of the cxeculive residing in oilier cit ies had not reached the .lewish Labor Commilte" at the time the \'Ote wtiS taken. Imt it is not ex pected that their vote will upset
tile dfcl.slnn.
The niainfity resolution wa.s proposed by .Joseph Haskln of the Jewish Workmen's Circle. Isidor Naglffr, a vice-president of the Imcrnatiunal Ladies Gar¬ ment Workers Union, propo.sed the resolution Which urged rep¬ resentation on the Interim Com¬ mittee.
'i'he majorily icsoliition sped fies (hat (he Jewish Labor Com¬ mittee wiil participate in ail ac- tiviiies i>f the Conference thai are within the scojie of the Lab or Committee's activity and ex pres.s "all (it the Labor Com inittee's own-decisions".
and we would rei|ulre twice or three limes that sum or even more. No statistician can at this moment compute the .ist of re building the spiritual and phy- (Contlnued  on Page  Four)
More than six hundred per¬ sons will be pre.sent at the 15th annual Hadassah Donor Dinner this Sunday evening' at 6:30 P. M., at the Nell House when George V. Denny, Jr., moderator of the Uiwn Hall of the Air, will .speak on "The New Wilder¬ ness".
'Pile success of the Town Hall radio program with its more than MOO organized listening groups meet in homes, schools, anti churches throughout the country, bespeaks the character of Mr. Denny, the man behind the idea. A great liberal and an exiionent of free discussion Mr. I^enny has said that "for greater unity we must under¬ stand all clas.ses of people and they must understand us".
Mrs, L. i...Praver, chairman of the dinner, has expressed grati¬ fication at the rcsiionse of the comtnunity which will make possible the filling of enlarged (|Uola demands to carry im Ha¬ dassah's regular health pro¬ gram. In addition to added bur¬ dens induced by the war. As hostilities get closer to the Mid¬ dle East medical facilities, ciin^ Ics, health stations and field hos¬ pitals must be maintained and expanded to meet all conditions. Mrs. Mordecai Hirschsprung will give the Invocation Sunday evening \vhlle the musical pro¬ gram'wllif be rendered By Mrs.' Ii C E. Sealfon arid Mr. Jerry Gtodbii ' accompanied by Mrs. Herbert Huffman.
This year's dinner committee . includes the following women: Assisting Mrs. Praver as co- chairmen, Mrs. Albert Schiff and Mi-f. William .Schiff, .secretary; Mrs. W. A- Hersch; treasurer, Mrs. Slg Ornstcin; a.s.slstant treasurer, Mrs. Sig Weisskerz; donors, Mrs. Justin Iv. Silli. in; Jewels Mrs. Roy Stone, and Mrs. Harry L. Mellman; Contrilnitors, Mrs. Albert Srhiff: publicity, Mrs. Allan Tarshish; program, Mrs. I!. W. Abram.son and Mrs. Julan liaril; i)rintlng, Mrs. Wil¬ liam Wiis.serstrom and Mrs. Da¬ vid Golilsmilh; hospitality and decorations. Mrs. A. A. Wolman; telcphonu, Mrs. Lee Sotiel and Mrs. Sum .Valcov; Business & Professional iiadassali represen taliVL's and usliers,. Mi-ss Stella Herman.
Serving im tllc Jewel comm^it- tee with Mrs. Stone and M'rs. Mellman tire Mrs. .Martin (;\idol- sky, Mrs. .Max Kanier, Mrs. Abe LcvLson, .Mrs. Harry Post and Mrs. .Sam Valcov.
The difficulties encountered hy tho.se in charge of Palestine supplies become apparent when it is realized thai tor many moiuh.s. wlieii the Medilerran eaii was closed to shipping the route between New York and Haifa ilocks was lengthened from 0,(100 to ¦JO.OOO miles; yet inonihly shipments n)ade Ihelr way across land and sea fraught with ilaiiger and daring. The Urilish Ministry of Shipping and the Brillsii War Itellef Society gave priority and free space lo every packing case labeled with, the deslination, "Hadassah-Pal- estine".
"The casting of bread upcm the waters ofttimes bring stran¬ gely unexpected rewards- Brit¬ ish and American help in Pal¬ estine In the last three decades offers a case in point", writes an author In Survey Graphic who (Continued on Page Five)
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