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&/>e 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.