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SCIITIIERN IM UIIII
VOL. X—NO. 2
For Southern Jewry
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1934.
Price: Five Cents
LARGEST HADASSAH MEETING
LAUNCHES HOSPITAL DRIVE
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Morgenthau, Jr., Banquet
Mrs. Edward Jacobs Elected President.
Washington—The launching of a
campaign to raise $300,000 for the
building fund of the first medical
center in Palestine and an inter
national radio broadcast from the
scene of the cornerstone laying of
the medical center on Mt. ScopUs
were the leading events of the
twentieth annual convention of Ha-
dassah, the Women’s Zionist Organ
ization of America, held recently at
the Wardman Park Hotel. Within
an hour of the campaign announce
ment cash and pledges of more
than $80,000 were made from the
floor. "
The presence at the convention of
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., wife of the
Secretary of the Treasurer, who
were guests of honor at the ban
quet, ended three day sessions of
unusual interest.
The convention was the largest in
the history of Hadassah. Twelve
hundred delegates and alternates
attended all business sessions while
a throng of nearly 4,000, the majori
ty in the banquet hall and others
in dining rooms and the hotel lob
by, heard Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs.
Morgenthau through amplifiers.
Mrs. Edward Jacobs, of New York,
was elected president. She becomes
leader of the organization for the
third time, having been president
foT two terms, from 1930 to 1932.
One of the early members of Ha
dassah when it was organized • in
New York 23 years ago, under the
name of the ‘‘Daughters of Zion,”
Mrs. Jacobs soon became one of the
outstanding leaders in the Zionist
movement in America. A resident
of Chattanooga, Tenn., twenty-one
years ago, she organized the Jewish
women of the south for Zionist
work. With Miss Henrietta Szold,
founder of Hadassah, and a hand
ful of other women Zionists, Mrs.
Jacobs collected funds in 1916 for
the establishment of an American
medical unit intended for Pales
tine which was pestilence-ridden as
an effect of the war.
The Hadassah leader is ranked by
Zionists as an outstanding American
in the movement to rebuild Pales
tine as a Jewish homeland. Statue
sque, of commanding appearance, a
clear, logical thinker, with a rich
background of knowledge in Jewish
and Zionist history, Mrs. Jacobs
has aspoused the Zionist cause in
all parts of the United States for
the past 22 years and has become
known to Jewish and non-Jewish
circles throughout the country. In
addition to her office in Hadassah,
Mrs. Jacobs is a member of the
Board of Governors of the Hebrew
University.
Baruch Zuckerman
Visiting In America
ALL SIGNS POINT TO NEW
BLOOD PURGE IN GERMANY
48 Officers Resign Rather Than Take Oath for Hitler
Wide Discontent Forming Church Crisis
Baruch Zuckerman, vice-presi
dent of the powerful Actions
Committee of the World Zionist
Organization, visiting this coun
try for a year In behalf of the
Palestine Laborltes, believes bet
ter understanding between the
Arabs and the Jews is only a
matter of time.
ANNUAL TEA OF
A. A. SISTERHOOD
Picks Ten Greatest Plays
By Jewish Authors
New York (WNS)—The works
of seven Americans, one German
and one Hungarian are included
in the list of the ten best plays
witten by Jewish playwrights
and produced during the 20th
century selected by Burns Mantle,
dean of New York dramatic
critics, for the American Hebrew.
The plays and their authors are:
Men in White” by Sidney Kings
ley; “The Jest” by Sam Benelli;
“The Beggar on Horseback” by
George S. Kaufman; “Dinner At
Eight” by Edna Ferber and
George S. Kaufman; “Grand Ho
tel” by Vicki Baum; “Of Thee I
Sing” by George S. Kaufman and
Morrie Ryskind; “On Trial” by
Elmer Rice; “The Last Mile” by
John Wexley; “The Play’s The
Thing” by Ferenc Molnar; and
“We, the People” by Elmer Rice.
Two of these. “Men in White”
and “Of Thee I Sing” were Pulit
zer Prize winners.
GOLDSMID ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF ICA
London (WNS)—sir Osmond
d’Avigdor Goldsmid, former presi
dent of the British Board of Jew
ish Deputies and for many years
a leader in the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, is the new president of
the Jewish Colonization Associat
ion. He succeeds Sir Leonard Lion
el Cohen, who headed the ICA for
the past five years. Upon his elec
tion to the presidency at the an
nual meeting of ICA, Sir Osmond
resigned from the British section
of the Jewish Agency. For a time
he had been chairman of the Jew
ish Agency Council. The ICA is
the organization intrusted with the
fortune left by Baron Maurice de
Hirsch, Franeo-Jewish philanthrop
ist and railroad magnate.
Seps Unity As Major
Need Of Polish Jews
London (WNS)—Establishemnt
of unity among the Jews of Poland
would do much to help solve the
problems of Polish Jewry, Neville
Laski, president of the Board of
Jewish Deputies, said in reporting
to the Board on his observations
during his recent visit to East
European Jewries. He recommended
that steps be taken to urge such
unity upon Polish Jewry. Laski al
so recommended that Jewish lead
ers from Western Europe and Amer
ica should make frequent visits to
Eastern Europe to familiarize them
selves with the problems of East
European Jewries and advised the
granting of loans to the Jewish co
operative banks in Poland as a
means to create new industries
which would give employment to
Jews
Robert Straus Gets
Higher Post In NRA
Washington (WNS)—While most
of General Hugh Johnson’s associ
ates in the NRA have followed their
chief into retirement, Robert K.
Straus, ambassador to France, and
Johnson’s special administrative as
sistant, has been promoted deputy
administrator in charge of division
VI, which deals with the restau
rant, ice and refrigerated ware
house codes.
Turkish Government
Gets Talmud Said To
Be 1,500 Years Old
Istanbul (WNS)—A Talmud said
to be nearly 1,500 years old and
valued at $100,000 has been pre
sented to the Turkish government
by the rabbi of the town of Dir-
bakir.The Talmud is written on
parchment and bound in gold.
The annual silver tea of the
Ahavath Achim sisterhood was held
at the Jewish Progressive Club. The
membership chairman, Mrs. Louis
Samet reported progress in the drive
for new members. The drive cul
minated in a tea when new mem
bers are introduced. The chairman
of the entertainment committee is
Mrs. S. O. Klotz; Mrs. H. H. Ep
stein opened the meeting with a
prayer; Rabbi H. H. Epstein gave
the address and a skit entitled ‘‘It
Will Happen Some Day” was pre
sented and a novelty tap dance giv
en by Mrs. 8. J. Srochi.
The cast for the dialogue were
Mesdames M. Meltz, S. Shainker,
H. Axelrod, Charles Weinstein, Ben
Diamond, G. Brodin. The personnel
of the orchestra were Mesdames D.
N. Meyer, A. Goldstein, Simon Men
del. L. Rittenbaum, H. Jacobson, M.
Boorstin, J. M. Brown, J. Cohen, J.
Srochi and V. Bock. Mrs. Floyd
Brandeis was at the piano.
Mesdames L. Rittenbaum and V.
Bock were in charge of the many
details which are involved in mak
ing the silver tea a success. Seated
at the tables to receive the guests
and members were Mesdames E.
Reisman, J. Spierbeger, Gus Bar
man and J. Balser.
The A. A. sisterhood is the ladies’
auxiliary of the A. A. congregation.
Its purpose is to foster Jewish ideals
and to assume complete mainten
ance of the Sunday school. Any
woman of Jewish faith interested
in the advancement of Jewish edu
cation, is elegible to membership.
Berlin (WNS) — There is un
mistakable evidence on all sides
here that a new and bloodier
purge than the one of June 30th
is due shortly in Germany. The
most sensational development in
dicating more bloodshed is the
amazing speech of Minister of
Economics Schacht, who after
three week of unusual silence
during which it was rumored that
he was held incommunicado, de
nounced virtually every phase of
the Nazi economic program. The
frankness of his remarks recalled
to observers here that a similar
speech by former Vice Chancellor
Von Papen was the prelude to the
June 30th purge.
Although Schacht’s speech is
the most dramatic sign of what
is to come, there are other sup
porting facts. Fritz Thyssen, the
industrial baron whose money
helped Hitler climb to power and
who has been regarded as the
power behind the Nazi throne,
has quietly slipped out of Ger
many and temporarily tajcen up
residence in South America. At
the same time it is learned that
forty-eight high-ranking officers
of the Reichswehr resigned rath
er than take the oath of allegi
ance to Hitler. Among those who
quit were eight generals and three
admirals. A revival of rumors
eral Goering and the notorious
Julius Stroicher are also straws
showing which way the wind is
blowing. The sanguinary events of
June 30 and July 1 were preced
ed by a veritable epidemic of ru
mors involving highly placed
Nazis.
In addition to these pieces of
evidence and the steadily increas
ing economic stringency which is
causing wide discontent in the
radical wing of the Nazi party
there is the church crisis. The re
bellion of the Protestant pastors
against Reichsbishop Mueller and
his aide, August Jaeger, is rap
idly assuming menacing propor
tions. On top of this comes word
that the Catholics are preparing
to resume their opposition to the
Nazi regime. In many parts of
Germany Catholic bishops are
including in the Sunday sermons
substantial portions of the Bish
op’s declaration of last June
which was at that time forbidden
to the public. Cardinal Michael
Faulhaber of Munich is under
stood to have received authority
from the Pope to place an inter
dict upon the entire diocese in
the event of his arrest. An inter-
diet would make it impossible for
Catholics in Bavaria to have bap
tisms, confirmations, marriages,
concerning the removalf of Gen- extreme unctions or burials.
Jewish Conversion To
Catholicism Grows
Vienna (WNS)—The extent 'of
the epidemic of apostacy among Vi
enna Jews is revealed by the Cath
olic Missionary Society of Vienna,
which reports that 152 Jews em
braced Catholicism during the first
six months of 1934. For the cor
responding period of 1933 the num
ber of Jewish converts was given
102. Since 1930, when 27 Jews went
over to Catholicism, apostasy has
been growing by leaps and bounds
among Vienna Jews.
Jugoslavia’s Rabbi Close
Friend Of Boy Ruler
Belgrade (WNS)—Persons close
to the boy ruler of Jugoslavia,
King Peter II, who succeeded his
father, the murdered Alexander
II, report that among the young
monarch’s closest associates is
Rabbi Isaac Alcalay, chief rabbi
of Jugoslavia. Rabbi Alcalay,
whose father was a friend of
Peter’s grandfather, and who was
himself in the confidence of Al
exander, has known Peter since
he was an infant.
IMPORTANT B’NAI B’RITH
MEETING TO BE HELD OCT. 29
Hebrew University
Gets Anonymous
Gift Of $50,000
New York (WNS)—An anony
mous gift of $50,000 for the en
dowment of a professorship in
Jewish studies at the Hebrew
University was announced by Dr.
A. S. W. Rosenbach, president of
the American Friends of the He
brew University, coincidentally
with the opening of the Univer
sity’s tenth academic year. The
donor is an American who for the
present prefers to keep his iden
tity unknown but may permit it
to become known later.
A special meeting of Gate City
Lodge No. 144, B’nai B’rith, is to
be held the coming Monday eve
ning, October 29th, at the Stan
dard Club.
There are to be discussed sev
eral matters of immediate signif
icance. Matters affecting Lodge
activities are to be thoroughly
planned.
Final arrangements will be
made to honor the 75th Birthday
Anniversary of Alfred M. Cohen,
President of the Constitution
Grand Lodge.
If desired by those to attend,
dinner will be served at 6:30 P.
M. Members only are invited, and
those desiring reservations should
telephone the office of the Secre
tary at WAlnut 0381.
Jewish Agencies Will
Have to Finance Emi
gration to Biro-Bidjan
Warsaw (WNS)—Settlement of
foreign Jews in Biro-Bidjan is pos
sible if such migration is financed
by foreign Jewish organizations, it
was announced by Dr. Pecker,,
chairman of the executive of the
Polish-Jewish Emigration Union, on
his return from Moscow, where he
conferred with officals of the Com-
zet and the Ozet regarding Jewish
settlement in Soviet Russia. At the
same time it is learned that in 1935
there will be an extensive emigra
tion of Polish Jews in Russia.
Ireland’s Chief Rabbi
To Head Orthodox
Khillah In Paris
Paris (WNS)—Dr. Isaac Harzc
chief rabbi of Ireland, has accept<
the invitation of the Orthod<
community of Paris to succeed h
late father as chief rabbi of tl
Parisian Orthodox kehillah.