Newspaper Page Text
?T/>e
SCIffUERN
For Southern Jewry
VOL. X—NO. I
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1934.
Price, Five Cents
NEW YORK NAZIS OPEN WAR
ON JEWISH CANDIDATES
FOR POLITICAL OFFICES
18,000 GATHERED IN MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN TO cele
brate GERMAN DAY
New York (WNS)—Amid scenes
Tennniscent of a Hitler rally in
Germany, 18..000 pro-Nazis Ger
man-Americans, gathered in Mad
ison Square Garden to celebrate
German Day under the auspices of
the Nazi-controlled United German
Societies in New York, pledged
themselves to eliminate from po
litical offices in New York at the
coming election all “Jewish influ
ence." Under cover of a demand for
greater political representation for
German-Americans, speakers ac
tively identified with Nazi propo-
ganda in this country called on
the 100 per cent Nazi audience to
wage a last-ditch fight against “our
enemies.”
Although Dr. Ignatz T. Griebl,
former national president of the
Friends of New Germany and chair
man of the meeting, did non men
tion the Jews by name, the howl
ing mob of Nazis understood him
when he shouted: “Those who fight
us must perish—socially as well as
economically—because of our de
termination to destroy our enemies
completely and without any con-
:ideration whatever.’ Thunderous
cheers of “Heil Hitler” and “Heil
Roosevelt” greeted Dr. Griebl when
he asserted that “if Germans were
good enough to serve Washington
and Lincoln, if they were good
enough to spill their blood and give
their lives on the battlefields of
the American Revolution, then we
should be truly good enough to
help our President in carrying out
his program of reconstruction and
recovery.” After these remarks
Griebl read a letter from President
Roosevelt lauding the contribution
of German-Americans to the up
building of the United States.
Far more inciting than Dr. Griebl
was Louis Zahne, editor of the
Nazi organ, Deutsche Zeitung, and
chairman of the German-American
Independent Voter’s League ( who
was introduced as “the political
leader of Germans in America and
the American Hindenburg.” Zahne
is the one responsible for the or
ganized effort now being made by
the Nazis in this country to defeat
all Jewish candidates for public of
fice and to wreak political ven
geance on non-Jewish officials who
opposed Nazi propoganda. After at
tacking the New York Post and
the New York Daily Mirror, with
out mentioning their names, for
the manner in which they have
handled the arrest of Bruno Rich
ard Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnap
ping prisoner, and urging a German
boycott against those papers, Zahne
launched into a tirade against Jew
ish office-holders.
Remarking that it was strange
that all the candidates for the gov
ernorshipi \>f New York were “of
the same type,’ Zahne said: “We
; a\e one man who is already Gov-
e f nor and the Republicans have
chosen a Moses. Solomon is the
socialist candidate, and I don’t
know whom the Communists are
running, but I am sure it is King
David.” He then called attention
t* 18 feet that former Mayor John
•F. Hylan was an independent can
didate for governor and the “only
pure Aryan in the running,” a left-
(Continued on page 2)
Arab Candidate For
Jerusalem Mayoralty
Seeks Jewish Support
Jerusalem (WNS)—Alarmed at
the gains made by his Arab oppon
ent for the mayoralty of Jerusalem,
Ragheb Nashashibi, the incumbent,
is trying desperately to win the
support of the Jewish electorate in
the coming municipal elections.
Jewish leaders, however, have adop
ted a policy of neutrality between
the two Arab candidates and are
concentrating on electing the uni
ted Jewish ticket of councilmen.
The Jewish candidates are Jacob
Hackmashvili, manager of Barclay’s
Bank, who represents the United
Agudath Israel; Isaac Ben Zvi,
Laborite; Chaim Salomon, former
vice-mayor of Jerusalem, Mizrachi;
Rabbi Blau, Agudath Israel; Daniel
Elmaleh, attorney, Sephardic Jews;
and Daniel Auster, lawyer, General
Zionists. Meanwhile foreigners resi
dent here are appealing to the
courts against the government’s de
cision that they cannot vote in the
elections. The foreigners contend
this is contrary to the Palestine
Mandate.
Proclaim Boycott Against
German-Jewish Plants
London (WNS)—The Jewish Rep
resentative Council of England, the
organization prosecuting the anti-
German boycott in this country,
has proclaimed a boycott against
the 18 Jewish-owned clothing fac
tories from Germany which have
received permission to move their
plants to England. The boycott has
been extended to these manufac
turers not only because the princi
pal reason for their removal to
England is to escape the effects of
the boycott but because part of the
raw materials they will use is to
come from Germany.
Pasvolsky Appointed To
Domestic Department
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—An
nouncement is made here that
President Roosevelt has appointed
Leo Pasvolsky, writer and economist,
as economist of the Bureau of For
eign and Domestic Commerce. Since
1922 Mr. Pasvolsky has been on the
staff of the Brookings Institution.
His dutifes will consist of studies
in connection with foreign trade re
lations and the analysis of material
to be furnished by the Department
of Commerce to various govern
ment bureaus drafting reciprocal
trade treaties.
Alliance Schools In
Turkey Are Menaced
«
Istanbul (WNS)—The French
language schools maintained here
by the Alliance Israelite Univer-
salle for nearly sixty years may
have to close down as a result of
the Turkish’ government’s determi
nation to replace all schools opera
ted by foreigners with national
Turkish educational institutions.
There are some 27,000 Turkish
children attending schools operated
by the French, Germans, English
and Americans. '
An Irreparable Loss
Foreign Minister Louis Barthou
of France was slain by the as
sassin who also killed King
Alexander of Yugo-Slavia. Min
ister Barthou, one of the font
po.verful In” * -a for 'n
Lurope, was friend of the
Jen*.
Nazi Spending Large
Sums On Anti-Semitic
Propaganda Abroad
Paris (WNS)—Although Dr. HJa-
lmar Schach’t, Nazi minister of fin
ance, announced some time ago
that no more government funds
would be expended for Nazi propa
ganda abroad, the well-informed
Pariser Tageblatt reveals that the
Nazi propaganda bureau Is still
spending large sums on spreading
anti-Semitism in the Orient and
the Near East. The Pariser Tage
blatt reports that Germany is spend
ing 3,600,000 marks annually in
French North Africa, Palestine,
Syria and Egypt in order to arouse
the Islamic world against the Jews.
It is also said that Goebbels meets
regularly with the chieftains as
signed to direct this propaganda. It
is significant that anti-Semitic out
breaks have recently occurred in
those districts where these funds
are being expended.
Professor Abramson
Reveals New Discovery
New York (WNS)—New possibili
ties in the electrical treatment of
disease were opened up to science
when Professor Harold A. Abram
son of Cornell Medical College re
vealed before the Electro-Chemical
Societies his discovery of new
methods for measuring the tiny
charges of electricity known to be
present in bacteria, virulent and
non-virulent, and in living cells in
general. Although Dr. Abramson’s
discovery is still In Its experimental
stage, It has already made it possi
ble to distinguish between the viru
lent and non-virulent forms of the
organism causing diptheria by de
termining their respective electric
charges,
only 316,826.
Ik
Nazis Bar Jews From
Handling Newspapers
Berlin (WNS)—One more mearjs
of earning a livelihood is now
closed to German Jews as a result
of a decision by the Newsdealers’
Association to bar all Jews from
membership. This means that Jews,
can no longer distribute papers or
periodicals.
LEAGUE AGAINST
ANTI-SEMITISM MAPS
FIGHT ON NAZISM
Paris (WNS)—Plans for coordi
nating world-wide efforts to com
bat Nazi anti-Semitism are being
drafted by the International League
against Anti-Semitism which is
holding a congress here. Delegates
from England, France, Egypt,
Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and
Belgium are conferring on details.
The Congress Intends to cooperate
with all existing anti-Nazi groups
and to strengthen their activities
and extend them on a world-wide
scale.
Greek Premier Rejects
Anti-Semites’ Demands
For Separate Voting
Salonlki (WNS)—Premier Tsal-
daris has Informed the Jews of
Greece that he will under no cir
cumstances revive the separate
electoral college for Jews which
means that in the forthcoming par-
limentary elections the Jews will
have the same electoral voting
rights as all other citizens. The an
nouncement of the Prime Minister
Is a direct reply to the anti-Semitic
agitation of former Premier Veni-
zelos and his followers and who
have been Insisting that the Jews
be restricted to their own voting
college. Venizelos has repeatedly
warned the Jews that their refusal
to accept a separate electoral col
lege would lead to wide-spread anti-
Jewish troubles. In opening his
election campaign Venizelos said he
didn’t want the votes of Jews. Ac
tually his animosity against them
is the result of their having contri
buted to his defeat last year.
San Francisco (WNS)—Continued
prosecution of the anti-Nazi boy
cott and complete support of the
fund being raised to combat the
spread of Fascism were voted by
the annual convention of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor. The con
vention re-endorsed the boycott af
ter hearing a report of Its special
boycott committee which declared
that the boycott had been effective
and called on the convention to re
new Its “vigordus protest to the
crushing of trade unions and the
enslavement of the erstwhile free
workers of Germany.” The report
also recommended that “trade un
ionists continue to employ in this
fight the traditional trade union
weapon, the boycott, against the
Nazi government until labor In
Germany is again made free and
the persecution authorized by the
Nazi government of our fellow-men
simply because of their race or
creed shall cease.”
Supporting the boycott resolution
William Green, president of the
Federation, urged the continuance
of the boycott voted at last year’s
convention and voiced deep concern
with the move to obtain aid for the
refugees who are victims of Fascism.
"We cannot be true to labor and to
ourselves if we remain complacent
when our brothers in other coun
tries are. being persecuted because
they demand freedom,” he declared.
The resolutions committee, in
commenting on the boycott report,
asserted it had confirmed “without
any possibility of contradiction that
since the advent of Hitler and
Nazism the condition of German
SPANKN0EBEL
SMUGGLED BY
GOEBBELS AID
HUSTLED BACK TO GERMANY
AT POINT OF PISTOL BY
HERR VON FELDMAN
New York (WNS)—While agents
of the U. S. Department of Justice
were hunting for Heinz Spanknoe-
bel, former head of the American
Nazi movement, he was being hust
led back to Germany at the point
of a pistol wielded by Herr van
Feldman, an agent of the Nazi Min
istry of Propaganda, sent here for
that purpose. This sensational piece
of testimony was laid before the
renewed public hearings of the Con
gressional Committee Investigating
Nazi Propaganda by Friedrich Karl
Kruppa, a former important Nazi
leader, who Identified himself as
an “insider” who pnee played a
major role in Nazi activities in this
country.
Under questioning by Representa
tive John McCormack, Chairman of
the Committee, Kruppa declared
that on October 7, 1933, Spanknoe-
bel was forced at the point of a pis
tol to leave the residence of Dr.
Ignatz T. Griebl and go aboard the
liner Europa. Kruppa said that the
pistol was held by Feldman, who
accompanied Spanknoebel back to
Germany. Feldman was sent here
to get Spanknoebel because the lat
ter had disobeyed orders from Ber
lin, where there was fear that he
might make damaging disclosures.
Kruppa also told the Committee
that he had withdrawn from the
Friends of New Germany when he
workers has become Intolerable;
workers have become Intolerable;
that wages have been reduced, work
hours lengthened, living cost and
taxation increased and that the last
vestiges of the once powerful trade
union and cooperative movement of
Germany has been wiped out by the
ruthless cruelty of the Nazi regime.”
In joining the war against Fas
cism, the convention acted on the
warning of Walter M. Citrine, gen
eral secretary of the British Trade
Union Congress and president of
the International Federatioon of
Trade Unions, who declared that
Fascism and not Communism is the
real danger to democracy and labor
unions. After hearing Citrine charge
that “the record of Fascism Is one
of repression and terrorism, failure
and futility, a record which more
than any other factor has contribu
ted to the feeling of insecurity which
has brought the possibility of
another widespread war to the
forefront,” the Federation pledged
its entire support to the crushing
of Fascism and Nazism.
Citrine’s warning was bolstered
by, the speech of B. C. Vladeck, gen
eral manager of the Jewish Daily
Forward and chairman of the Na
tional Jewish Labor Committee.
Vladeck pleaded for a united front
of Jewish and labor organizations to
win freedom from persecution. Re
calling that persecution of the Jews
had always been a forerunner of a
“dark storm” against labor, Vladeck
pledged that the Jewish trade un
ionists would not falter in the strug
gle against the tyrannical forces
seeking to crush democracy.
(Continued on page 2)
JOINS WAR ON FASCISM AND
RE ENDORSES ANTI-NAZI FUND