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SOUIIIERN l$RA
'OL. X—NO. 6
For Southern Jewry
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1934.
Frice: Five Cents
UTLER REVEALS .
FASCIST PUTSCH
AGAINSHI, S. GOV,
Offered $3,000,000 to Or
ganize Army for March
On Washington
New York (WNS) — The details
[>f a sensational plot by a group of
York financiers to stage a
fascist coup d’etat with the help
an organized army of mercenar-
drafted from the ranks of war
teterans were revealed here by Ma
li ir General Smedley Butler, for
mer ranking officer of the U. S.
Marine Corps, who heatedly reject
ed a tempting offer to organize the
movement. Further details of. the
proposed putsch, which envisioned
march on Washington and the
Rapture of the government, will be
revealed by Butler when he testi
fies before the Congressional Com
mittee Investigating Nazi Propa
ganda.
General Butler declared that last
August Gerald P. MacGuire, a
member of the brokerage firm of
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ake All Children
Out Of Germany
Urges Lady Astor
London (WNS)—“If I were a
ew, I would get every child out
f Germany, but grown-ups must
tay to endeavor to pull the coun-
ry around,” Lady Astor, Ameri-
an-born peeress and member of
'arliament, declared in an ad-
ress before the women’s division
f the German-Jewish relief fund.
Bitterly attacking Nazi persecu
tion of Jewish children, Lady As-
itor said. “Literally, I cannot read
what is happening to Jewish
children in Germany without see
ing red. I do not want to say a
word against Germany, but I’m
sore. We do not want to hate. If
Germany is hating Jews she is
bound to suffer, because hate is
a poison.” Five hundred women
each paid $25 a plate at the
luncheon meeting to hear Lady
Astor.
RADIO PRIEST
Father Coughlin, Detroit’s fa
mous radio priest, believes that
Jews and Catholics are alike in
that they both suffer from a
severe inferiority complex.
Push Emigration
Of Polish Jews
To Biro-Bidjan
Warsaw (WNS)—M. Suritz, a
well-known Polish-Jewish lawyer
who is said to be a cousin of Ja
cob Suritz, Soviet ambassador to
Germany, has made arrangements
to go to Russia to deal with gov
ernment officials there In behalf
of the Jewish Emigration Society
here which has worked out a
plan for settling large numbers of
Polish Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ac
cording to reports in the Yiddish
press. Suritz is expected to pave
the way for the first contingent
of Polish-Jewish settlers at Biro
Bidjan. While in Russia Suritz
will confer with Dr. Joseph Ros
en, director of the Agro-Joint
work who recently return
ed from a visit to Biro-Bidjan.
It is also reported that Jews from
other countries who are to be
settled at Biro-Bidjan will be di
rected there through Poland first
because equipment for the col
onists is cheaper in Poland and
secondly because the demand for
such equipment will create work
for unemployed Jewish artisans.
Ship With Wandering
Jews Sails For Italy
Saloniki (WNS)—After cruis
ing the Mediterranean and Ae
gean Seas for sixteen weeks in a
vain search for n place to land
its three hundred eighty state
less and homeless Jewish pas
sengers, the S. S. Velos has sail
ed for Italy where it is expected
the Jewish wanderers will be al
lowed to remain temporarily.
For four months the S. S. Velos
has been sailing the seas, stop
ping at Saloniki, Istanbul and
Haifa. The Jewish passengers
originally wanted to go to Pal
estine but they were refused ad
mission because they lacked im
migration certificates.
Oswald Mosley To Be
Tried For Rioting
London (WNS)—All England is
looking forward to the early part
of December when Sir Oswald
Mosley, leader of the anti-Semitic
Fascist blackshirts, and three of
his followers, will go on trial in
the Court of Assizes at Lewes,
Sussex, to face charges of riotous
assembly and breach of the peace
growing out of a Fascist meeting
at Worthing in October. Mosley
and his lieutenants are now at
liberty on $500 bail.
SUCCESSOR
Baron Maurice de RothsctiLlJ,
son of the late Baron Edmonde,
who succeeds to the title and
estates of his father.
Labor Plan Training
School For Jewish
Sailors In Palestine
New Anti-Semitic Fascist Group
Is Now Headed By City Official
Outgrowth Of Now Defunct Khaki Shirts The Aim
Of Body Is To Fight Jewish Communists
Saloniki (WNS)—Plans for the
organization of a school by the
Jewish Labor Federation of Pal
estine to train Jewish sailors were
announced here by Aba Choosl,
a leader of the Federation, who
is in Saloniki to engage 150 Jew
ish seamen for work on the Hai
fa Harbor. Chooshi pointed out
that although Palestine is now in
a position to absorb 1,000 Jewish
harbor workers and several hun
dred Jewish sailors, there is no
way of meeting the demand. He
also emphasized that while Jews
import 70 percent of all the goods
sold in Palestine, less than eight
per cent of the seamen on ships
operating between Palestine and
other countries are Jews. Chooshi
declared that the Labor Federa
tion is determined to place as
many Jewish sailors as possible
on merchant vessels operating
from Mediterranean ports.
Jews Fleeing Saar
In Fear Of Nazi
Plebiscite Triumph
London (WNS)—Hundreds of
Jews are fleeing from the Saar
district in fear of what may hap
pen to them after the January
plebiscite when the Saar is ex
pected to come under German
jurisdiction, according to a dis
patch from Saarbruecken to the
London Daily Dispatch. Scores of
Jews are selling their business at
sacrifice prices and rushing
across the border to F'rance and
Luxembourg. The mass flight of
Jews is motivated not only by
fear of what the Immediate fu
ture holds in store for them but
by the present organized cam
paign of anti-Semitic terror in
stigated by the German front.
Jews are being boycotted and
threatened with physical viol
ence daily. The closing of Jewish
business establishments is report
ed to be throwing thousands of
people out of work.
New York (WNS)—A first class
political sensation is in the mak
ing here as the result of the dis
closure that the commander-in-
chief of a new anti-Semitic
Fascist movement, calling itself
T he American Concentration, Inc.,
the confidential clerk of City
Controller Joseph P. Goldrick and
that several hundred members of
be Italian Fusion clubs organized
curing the mayoralty election of
!933 have joined the organization
en masse. Claiming a membership
i five thousand, mostly natural
ized Italians, the American Con
centration is an outgrowth of the
defunct Khaki Shirts. The aim of
the new organization is to fight
Jewish Communism,” but its
commander, John T . Prout, who
boasts of the Napoleanic title of
consul” denies the movement is
anti-Semitic. Prout is new in the
organization, which was founded
by Raphael Mucilli, a naturaliz
ed Italian, and a non-English
speaking Italian, by the name of
Racchoni, who was one of the
many “brigadier generals” in the
Khaki Shirts. Members of the
American Concentration sport
blue shirts, trousers and berets
and Sam Browne belts. Investi
gators who have looked into the
American Concentration, report
that the organization has held
joint meetings with the Nazis and
that its leaders are opposed to the
anti-Nazi boycott. Records show
that American Concentration re
ceived a state charter on June
12, 1933. Spokesmen for the or
ganization admit that most of its
members are Italian Fascists, but
they are trying to interest native
Americans. The appointment of
Prout as commander is part of a
plan to "Americanize” the move
ment.
Scores Injured As Nazis
Attack Jews In Bronx
Yale To Exhibit
Books Nazis Burned
New Haven, Conn. (WNS)—
Copies of all the books burned by
the Nazis during the literary auto
da fe staged in May, 1933, will
be placed in a special exhibit be
ing arranged here by the librarian
of Yale University.
ARMAND MAY WILL
SERVE AS ADVISOR
FOR EXPORT BANK
Mill Executive Selected
for Internationally Im
portant Post.
Armand May, president of the
American Mills Company, of Atlan
ta, was notified Thursday of his ap
pointment by Eugene P. Thomas, of
visory committee of exporters and
importers for the Export-Import
Bank of Washington.
Mr. May was notified of his , ap
pointment by EugeneP. Thomas, of
New York, president of the Nation
al Foreign Trade Council, of which
Mr. May is a regional director.
The advisory committee was or
ganized at the reqeust of George N.
Peek, president of the Second Ex
port-Import Bank and will work in
cooperation with the committee ap
pointed by the American Bankers’
Association, of which Robert F.
Maddox, of Atlanta, is chairman, in
promoting the interests of the
banks.
Mr. May, who is well known in
Atlanta and the south, is also pres
ident of the American Associated
Companies and southern vice presi
dent of the American Manufactur
ers’ Export Association.
In addition to the National For
eign Trade Council the following
trade associations will be represent
ed on the committee: National Fed
eration of Foreign Trade Associa
tions, American Manufacturers Ex
port Association, Export Managers
Club of New York, National Associ
ation of Credit Men, Foreign De
partment; Council of Inter-Ameri
can Relations, American - Japanese
Trade Council, American - Chinese
Trade Council, American Exporters
and Importers Association, and Na
tional Council of American Export
ers and Traders,. Inc.
Labor To Raise $250,000
Fund to Figbt Fascism
New York (WNS) — Plans for
raising a $250,000 chest for the lib
eration of workers In Europe from
Fascist persecution were announced
here at a dinner in honor of Wal
ter Citrine, president of the Inter
national Trade Union Federation.
The fund will be raised by Ameri
can labor and distributed by the
Federation. The International La-,
dies’ Garment Workers Union has
pledged $100,000 to the fund, of
which $50,000 has already been
raised.
New York (WNS) — Scores of
people, including many women,
suffered minor injuries, and one
Nazi and one Jew were arrested on
charges of disorderly conduct as
the result of a battle between six
hundred members of the Bronz
section of the Friends of the New
Germany and one hundred mem
bers of the Clermont Benevolent
Society, a Jewish lodge. Both
groups were scheduled to meet in
rooms at the Ebling Casino. With
out warning, the Nazis entered the
room where the Jews were meet
ing and ordered them out. Protest
ing, the Jews began to evacuate,
but in the corridors hand to hand
fighting broke out between the two
groups. Fists, sticks and chairs were
used by both sides. When the brawl
moved into the street police re
serves were called to disperse l35th
Nazis and Jews.
National Planning Board Flays
Hitlerism As “Hysterical Excess”
Say. He Was Offered $3,000,000 To Organize Army
For March On Washington
Washington, D. C. (WNS)
Presenting the first appraisal of
Nazism by an official government
agency, the National Planning
Board, whose chairman is Fred
eric A. Delano, uncle of President
Roosevelt, has made public a re
port on conditions in Germany, in
which Hitlerism is described as
a “hysterical excess.” While the
members of the Board assume no
responsibility for the report, they
hint at their agreement with it.
The report .incorporated in the
findings of the Board’s report
as the basis for a recommenda
tion that the government create
a permanent national planning
board, was prepared by Lewis L.
Lorwin, of the Brookings Insti
tute and A. F. Hinrich, of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. It de
clares that economic considera
tions rather than racial hatred
has been at the root of Jewish
persecutions in Germany and
that “in the methods of promot
ing class changes there have been
hysterical excesses. The atmos
phere suggests less the presence of
a positive ideal, that might seem
to warrant the excesses, than it
does the presence of a social
psychosis, arising as compensa
tion for weakness and fear—un
derstandable, but unlovely.”