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VOL. X—NO. 5 For Southern Jewry ATLANTA, GA., .FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1934. COSTA RICAN JEWS APPEAL TO HEBREW SHELTERING SOCIETY ■■ — ■ ■ Literature Being Spread In the Little Republic Of Costa Rica. New York — That copies of the outrageous “Proctocols of the El ders of Zion” and other anti-Semi tic literature are being spread far and w'de in the little Republic of Costa Rica, Central America, has just become known through an ap peal to the Hebrew Sheltering & Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 425 Lafayette St., New York City, by the Jews of Costa Riac who greatly fear that these anti-Semitic attacks will arouse the populace against them. In their plea the Costa Rican Jews ask Hias to see to it that American Jews come to their aid if necessary. The Jewish population of Costa Rica totals about 350 men, women and children, most of whom have corns from Poland, settling in the Republic during the past three years. 90 per cent of the Jews earn their livelihood by peddling. The other 10 per cent is engaged in sma'l industries which have been created bv and for the peddlers. Thus there are small factories for the manufacture of sweaters, fur niture, shirts trousers, shoes and smaller wearing apparel. There are also several supply stores. It i<? interesting to learn that the several hundred Jews have mo’-e than a thousand employes, the ma jority of them Costa Ricans, men and women and, of course, non- Jews. Every peddler employs at least one non-Jew. It appears, how ever, that this revival of business and industry has invoked the jeal ousy and envy of a small group of Costa Rican merchants and land- owners and this group is respon sible for the wide anti-Semitic at tacks which are being made in a number of local Spanish papers This group also circulates th° “nrofo'-ols” and other anti-Jewis v literature. The Jewish settlers fee 1 that they are lonesome and sepa rated from World Jewry and al though the President of the Repub lic seems to have liberal tendencies they are somewhat panic - stricken because the Jews are accused of be ng Communists. and undermin ing t^e foundations of Christianity. The Jewish community has three institutions, a Zionist Organization, a Jewish Center and a Free Loan Pund. In view of the situation, the Ccrta F’can Jews have united and have created a Central Jewish Committee for the purpose of pro tecting their interests. Neverthe less, they have appealed to Hias and through Hias to American Jewry for aid if it should be need » American Delegation To World Boycott Parley Headed By UnteTmyer New York (WNS)—Samuel Un- ermyer, Dr. Paul Hutchinson, edi- °" of the Christian Century. Mrs. Mark Harris and Louis Myers sail or London on November 16 as be American delegates to the In ternational Boycott Conference ^ nich opens there on November 25. Delegates from eighteen countries • 1 attend the conference which 1 seek to establish a permanent j w °rld boycott organization, create j bureau of statistics and informa- j , ar, d discuss the progress of the j jjoycott and methods of extending | Three Faiths Form Jacksonville Conference » Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 8. (NC JC)—The Jacksonville Conference of Jews and Christians was organ ized at a meeting here of repre sentative Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen. Rabbi Israel L. Kaplan, of Congregation Ahavath Chesed, has been elected chairman. The Conference will work close ly with the National Conference of Jews and Christians for the promotion of justice, amity and understanding among Protestants Catholics and Jews. Included in j its forthcoming projects are: or ganization of a three-faith team to address the local high schools: arranging for a luncheon under the auspices of a number of civic clubs, the program of which wlil be broadcast over the local muni cipal radio stations, and arrang ing for meetings to be addressed by ministers and rabbis. Among those who have accepted membership in the Conference are: Father James J. Meehan, Rev. Albert C. Holt, Rev. |Albart J. Kissling, Rev. James E. Barbee, Mrs. Israel L. Kaplan, Francis P. Fleming, Scott M. Loftin, Merrill C. Brown, Cyril Marx, Mrs. Ma tilda Fleming O’Donald, Joel Richard, Mrs. M. M. Lander and Frank Bisbee. CIVIC LEADER PASSES AWAY Anti-Nazi League Pub lishes Collection Of Anti-Nazi Addresses New York (WNS)—Addresses, es says, and articles by leaders of pub lic opinion here and abroad on the Nazi regime and the anti-Nazi boy cott are ' contained in a 150-page book, ‘‘Nazis Against the World,” just published by the Non-Secta rian Anti-Nazi League. The volume includes speeches by Samuel Un- termyer, Samuel Seabury, William Green, Walter N. Citrine, Dr. Paul Hutchinson, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Prof. Raymond Moley, David A. Brown, the Archbishop of Canter bury, Sir John Simon, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Lady Violet Bon- ham-Carter. Many of the import ant speeches and open letters by Mr. Untermyer also appear in the book, the preface of which contains an historic review of the Nazi re gime and the boycott. New Mexican President Pledge Jews Protection Mexico City (WNS)—Mexican Jews need have no fear of anti- Semitic discrimination under the new administration, President elect Cardenas declared at an audience he granted to a delega tion of Jewish leaders. When one of the Jewish spokesmen called his attention to the existing anti- Semtiic movements, Senor Carde nas said that he would see to it that the Jewis are given every pro tection. Funeral services for Mr. Victor H. Kreigshaber, leader in the business, j cultural, and civic life of the city for forty-five years, was held with Rabbi David Marx officiating. The founder of the firm of V. H. Kreig shaber & Son died at Emory Uni versity Hospital after a brief 11K ness He was 75 years old. The death of Mr. Kreigshaber deprives Atlanta of one of its most beloved citizens, and one who work ed tirelessly for betterment. He was a leader in numerous enterprises and had been a resident of the city for nearly half a century. Mr. Kreigshaber is survived by his wife, who is prominent in local club and charitable work; his son, Williams V. Kingdon, of Indianap olis; his daughter, Miss Marian Kreigshaber: two brothers, David C. Kreigshaber, of St. Louis, and Isaac N. Kreigshaber, of Kansas City, and three grandsons, Henry, William and Victor Kingdon. Hs was president of the Hebrew Orphan’s Home and in recent years had taken an active interest in the ; founding and promotion of the At lanta Philharmonic Society, o' ■ which he was president until hir death. He was also a member o the Yaarab Temple of the Shrine the B’nai B’rith, and the Presi dents’ Club of Atlanta. He had served as a director of the local council, Boy Scouts of America. Cardinal Hayes Lauds Jewish Girl’s History Of Jesuit Education New York (WNS)—Gulda S. San der, a Jewish student at the College of the City of New York, has made a major contribution to the histori cal records of the Catholic Church in America by writing ‘‘The His tory of Jesuit Educational Intsitu- tions in New York City” as her the sis for the degree of master of science in education. This was an nounced by no less person than Cardinal Hayes at a celebration commemorating the 50th anniver sary of the United States Catholic Historical Society. Cardinal Hayes announced himself as delighted with M ss Sander’s work which h - ? described as ‘‘splendid and schol arly.” The Catholic churchman said that “it is s’gnificant that a youn - ’ Jewish girl at City College has written a thesis on Jesuit educa tional history which has been rat ed very high. She sets an example to Catholic students.” Miss Sander’s thesis has been published in the newest volume of the Catholic His torical Society’s year book. Price: Five Cents — 11 JEWS ELEGIES TO CONGRESS Lehman Re-Elected Gov ernor By Huge Plurality; Scores of Jews Elected Michael Kalinin, president of the Soviet Republic, told the newly ap pointed head of the organization committee for Biro-Bidjan that he expects to see the district a Jewish Socialist Republic in from five to eight years. NEW DISCOVERY AT GEZERJNCOVERED New Tombs Revealing Vi tal Link With Early Civilizations League Commission Studies The Jewish Position In Saar • Rome (WNS)—The League ol Nations Commission on the Saar, which is meeting in secret session here, is reliably reported to have given serious thought to the prob lem of the Jews in that district. Members of the Commission are said to have mapped out tenta tive plans for saving the Saar Jews in the likely event that the January nlebi c c ? te restores the Saar to Germany. Rothschild’s Sons Say Kaddish Twice Daily Paris (WNS)—Carrying on the 150-year-old Rothschild tradition of Orthodoxy, Baron Maurice and James de Rothschild, the two sons of the late Baron Ed mond de Rothschild, are saying kaddish twice daily in the Paris home of the Rothschild family. Twice each day a specially se lected minyan meets in the Rothschild palace and Maurice and James say the prayers for the dead. Arrangements for the minyan were made by Chief Rabbi Israel Levi. Among the members of the minyan are Isaac Naidtich, noted Russian Zionist, who has lived in Paris for ten years and was an inti mate of Baron Rothschild. Jaffa — The announcement this week from the Palestine Expedition Committee of important new dis- cover.es at Gezer again centers world attention on the history of mankind and the vast archeologi cal work now being carried on in Palestine. The remains of the bur ials which are believed to date from 2090 B. C., onwards, and the yield of ‘many important objects bearing upon the civilization and the Egyp- j tian influence of that period, have just been uncovered at Gezer, be tween Wadi Sarrar and Jaffa, by an expedition of the Palestine Ex ploration Fund conducted by Mr. Aiam Rowe. The great tomb was uncovered and entered by a flight of rockcut steps, and it was found that the ck over the mouth had collapsed. It covered a human burial of the; Iron Age (about 1100 B C.) Asso ciated with this burial was a splen did complete bronze dagger, with fojr studes for the handle; a beau tiful agate figurine of a cat, sacred, ti the Egyptian Goddess Bastet, ani a quantity of potte’y, includ-! ing several unbroken juglets. Below this burial were remains of other; interments, which, from the pottery a'soeiated with them, date from ebout 2000 B. C. These discoveries weer climaxed by the finds on Tuesday night of a passage of 100 feet long containing objects and remains thought to be over 4000 years old. ‘~ezer is an ancient Canaanitish City, biblically recorded in the wars between David and the Philistines, and was intimately associated with the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks some three centuries before the destruction of Solomon's sec ond Temple,” says M, Dizengoll, m yor of Tel-Aviv and resident r-mre^entative of the American Export Lines, who was this season responsib’e in including the ancient citv on the itinerary of his Com pany’s Yankee Cruises. “The new excavation will be an added lure to the biblical lands’ Journey through the ‘Country of the Giants’ ”, adds Mr. Diz°ngoll, and is the second (Continued on page three) New York (WNS)— The re- election of Governor Herbert ft. Lehman by the tremendous plur ality of more than 800,000 over his Republican opponent and fel- low-Jew, Park Commissioner Rob ert Moses, the defeat of all anti- Semitic candidates, the election of 11 Jewish Congressmen, including one newcomer to Congress from Connecticut, and the election 1 of scores of Jewish candidates for state, county and municipal of fices in New York, New jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Mas sachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Cal ifornia, Ohio, and Maryland were the highlights of Tuesday’s elec tions. . Governor Lehman’s Victo*^ was no surprise but the margin of his triumph was entirely unexpected because there was no way of es timating how large a vote form er mayor John F. Hylan, inde pendent candidate whoran With the backing of the Nazis, would poll in view of the fact that the two leading candidates were Jews. Final returns demonstrated con clusively that the political strength of the Nazis was virtual ly nil. Hylan received only ar lit tle more than 10,000 .votes, vir tually all of them in New York C ty. In Yorkvtlle, the hotbed of Nazi activity, his vote did not ex ceed 250. The re-ekiction of- Gov ernor Lehman marks the first 1 time that a Jewish governor has been named to succeed himself, ‘In addition to Governor. Leh man, Judge Isador WasserVogel was elected to a second fotirteert- year term on the (Supreme Court bench and Representatives Sam uel Dickstein, Theodore Peyser, Sol Bloom, Emanuel Caller ,’and William Sirovich were easy rtetors in their campaigns for re-elec tion to Congress. Twenty-six Jews were elected to the state Legislature. Jewish members of the new state senate are Saihuei Mandelbaum, A. Spencer Feld, Lazarus Joseph, Julius S.‘ Bferg, Philip Kleinfeld, Jacob Schwartz- wald, Frank Hendel and. Benia min F. Feinberg. The latter was the only successful Jewish candi date outside of New York : City. Jews who won election "the state asembly were Leonard ^arb- stein, Irving D. Neustein, fiiaul Streit, Joseph Hamerman, irti h. Holley, William Schwartz, Meyer Alterman, Carl Pack, Stfmuel Weisman, Benjamin Gladstone, Albert Schanzer, Julius Helland, Ralph Schwartz, A. F. Goldstein, George Kaminsky, Charles Breit- bart, Jacob Livingston, and Irwin Steingut. Assemblyman Steingut, who was a leader of the Demo cratic minority in the last legis lature, is expected to become speaker in the new house,-which is in control of the Democrats for the first time in twenty years. Among the curious sidelights on the. election was the one vote re corded for Adolf Hitler far gov ernor from a district { ip. .Long Beach, and the fact that the city spent $500 to enable Rabbi Nathan Wolf to vote. Rabbi WOlf 1 is the only voter in the fortieth election district and in order to give him his legal rights, a regular polling place, with a voting machine and (Continued on page four)