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?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