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SCUfUERN lUAEillE
VOL. X—NO. 9.
For Southern Jewry
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934.
Price: Five Cento
SAAR AGREEMENT LEAVES
REFUGEES FROM NAZILAND
AT MERCY OF GERMANY
Minority Protection Guaranteed For Only Year
Geneva (WNS)—Jews and other
refugees from Germany who enter
ed the Saar district since Hitler
came to power will be at the mercy
of the Nazi regime in the likely
event that the January 13th plebis
cite results in the return of the
Saar to Germany. This is the im
port of the Franco-German agree
ment on the Saar which the special
session of the Council of the Lea
gue of Nations approved without a
dissenting vote.
According to the terms of the
agreement, Germany guarantees to
take no reprisals or proceedings to
all inhabitants of the Saar, regard
less of race, religion or political be
lief for one year after the plebiscite,
but the value of this guarantee to
the refugees from Germany is
completely vitiated by a provision
which defines inhabitants as any
persons who have lived in the Saar
for at least three years prior to
January 13, 1935. That means
plainly that the refugees from the
Nazi terror are specifically exempt
from protection.
The Council was informed that it
had been impossible to get Ger
many to agree to guarantee more
than one year’s protection for mi
norities in the Saar or to include in
the agreement all persons inhabit
ing the Saar on the day of the ple-
bescite. It was explained that great
difficulties had been encountered
in prevailing upon the Reich to
grant to those unentitled to vote
in the plebiscite the same protec
tion guaranteed to those entitled to
vote.
Jewish inhabitants of the Saar
for the past three years will be free
to leave the district with all their
property within one year after the
plebiscite. If they remain in the
Saar after that they will be liable
to all the anti-Semitic laws in ef
fect in Ge~many.
The agreement sets up a supreme
plebiscite court which will serve as
the final arbiter in all complaints
roads against Germany by those
’Kho feel that the Reich is violating
its guarantees.
Beth Israel Leader
TWENTY-NINE GERMAN
CANDIDATES FOR U. S.
CITIZENSHIP REPUDI
ATE NAZI SYMPATHIES
Cincinnati (WNS)—Twenty-
nine German candidates for
American citizenship repudi
ated any connections or sym
pathy with Nazism or Fascism
when they appeared before Na
turalization Examiner Kiefer.
Setting a precedent, Kiefer
asked the prospective citizens
whether they were affiliated
with the Friends of the New
Germany or with any Fascist
movement. All answered in the
negative.
A. A. Sisterhood
• Conducts Services
Orthodox Jews Move
To Set Up Independent
Vienna Kehillah
Vienna (WNS) — Ignoring the
ever-growing menace of anti-Semit-
*sro. the Orthodox Jewish leaders
°f Vienna definitely broke with the
ienna Kehillah and called on the
ustrian government to authorize
em to establish an independent
Orthodox kehillah. Before the Or-
‘•°cox Jews can secede from the
' ?n na Kehillah they must obtain
government approval.
Leader of Goettingen
Disciplined for Playing
Qvgan In Synagogue
Berlin (WNS) — Herr Floecker,
f e leader of Goettingen, Is
u 8 party trlal because he has
onuaed playing the organ in a
^agogue. Floecker, who is an or-
r ; by Profession, contends that
j, " a?is permitted to work for
1 c °mnfercial establishments
the fact that he played the
gan in a synagogue is no viola-
‘ Naei doctrine.
Spiritual Leader of Beth Israel in
Macon, Ga. for Forty Years
Feder, Author of Aryan
Paragraph, Dismissed as
Streicher Is Promoted
Berlin (WNS) — Dismissal of
Gottfried Feder, one of the found
ers of the Nazi party and the auth
or of that part of its program con
taining the Aryan paragraph, from
his positions as secretary of state in
the ministry of economics and as
Reich Commissioner for Settle
ments, might have given German
Jewry some cause of optimism had
it not been for the simultaneous
announcement that Julius Streich
er, the Reich’s most notorious anti-
Simite and purveyor of blood ritual
libels, had been named Nazi Com
missioner for Upper Silesia in place
of Hellmuth Brueckner, who was
ousted last week. Feder’s remov
al, announced as a “retirement”
came as a sensational surprise be
cause it was he who converted Hit
ler to National Socialism. The re
moval of Feder is regarded as a
victory for the conservative element
in the Nazi regime. The promotion
of Streicher, who had been Nazi
overlord of Franconia, is believed
to presage the extension of militant
anti-Semitic measures to Upper Si
lesia, the Jewish population of
which has thus far been spared
much of the suffering endured by
the Jews of the Reich because they
are under the quasi-protection of
the League of Nations.
Moscow (WNS)—Jan Gomar-
nik, brother-in-law of the late
Chaim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew
poet, has been appointed first chief
deputy commissar for national de
fense in the miltary council
established under a new decree.
Gomarnik was one of the nine
Jewish officers in the Red Army
who received important posts in
the new body. Among the others
was Jonah Jakir, who was appoint
ed commander-in-chief of the
Ukrainian division of the Red
Army.
On Friday evening, December 7,
the Congregation Ahabath Achlm
Sisterhood conducted services,
the courtesy being extended the
Sisterhood by Rabbi H. H. Epstein.
Rabbi Epstein acted as master of
ceremonies and introduced Mrs. D.
H. Meyer, past president, who spoke
on “The Sisterhood Today ” Mrs.
Abe Goldstein, first past president,
and chairman of the Chanukah
ball, spoke on “Sisterhood Finan
ces”, and Mrs. 8. O. Klotz, presi
dent of the Sisterhood, spoke on
“Community Co-operation”.
The Sisterhood is a vital organ
in the life of Atlanta Jewry. Ushers
were Mesdames Victor Bock, Harry
Leffkoff, Dave Rosenfeld, Ben Dia
mond, Louis Rittenbaum, Jake Co
hen and Joseph Brown.
At the close of the services the
brotherhood of the congregation
were hosts to the Sisterhood and
the entire congregation in the ves
try rooms of the congregation.
MACON, TEMPLE
CELEBRATES 75TH
ANNIVERSARY
Leading Rabbis Thrbugh-
out Georgia Attend _
Services
ELI ELKAN
President of Beth IsraeL
To Name Newly Acquired
Huleh Concession After
Baron Rothschild
Furtwaengler Resigns
As Nazis Continue
War On Hindemith
Berlin (WNS) — Thwarted by
Propaganda Minister Goebbels in
his attempt to defend Paul Hide-
mith from Nazi attacks because of
his Jewish wife, Wilhelm Furt
waengler, himself the subject of
Nazi ire because of his refusal to
permit politics to invade the realm
of art, has resigned from the Reich
Chamber of Music, of which he was
deputy president, and given up his
positions as conductor of the Ber
lin Philharmonic Orchestra and di
rector of the Berlin State Opera.
Erich Kleiber, chief musical direc
tor of the State Opera also resign
ed, but Premier Wilhelm Goering
of Prussia refused to accept his res
ignation. Furtwaengler’s resigna
tion was accepted. Other noted
German musicians are reported to
be planning to resign too.
Jerusalem (WNS) — The conces
sion over the 57,000 dunam tract of
land around Lake Huleh, in north
ern Palestine, near the Syrian bor
der, which has just passed into Jew
ish ownership, will be re-named in
memory of the late Baron Edmond
de Rothschild, father of modern
Jewish colonization in Palestine, it
is learned here. Agricultural ex
perts are of the opinion that the
Huleh area will be occupied by at
least 30,000 Jewish settlers, 2,000 of
whom will be settled there next
year.
The acquisition of the Huleh area
Macon, Ga. — In commemorating
the founding of Temple Beth Israel
seventy-five years ago, Maooi) Jew
ry responded in full force. U) the
Anniversary Celebration held on
December 12th at the Temple buil
ding. Jews and non-Jews from all
over the State gathered for the oc
casion.
' . ; I
The history of Macon Jewry
stands out in the development of
Macon and the State of Georgia.
Rabbi Isaac E. Marcuson, national
ly known spiritual leader, has been
the rabbi of Congregation Beth Is
rael since 1894. Present officers of
the Temple include: Ell SCEkan,
president; Henry Harris, vice-pres
ident; Arle I. Blum, secretary, and
Harry Popper, treasurer. Those
serving an the Board of Trustees
are A S. ..Cohen, Mihon friend,
Louis Funkenstein, Morris. Michael,
Robert Nuasbaum and Morrla L.
Stern. - i - \
Prominent leaden attending the
celebration were Rabbi Ed- A. Lan
dau, of Albany, Ga.;, Rabbi Frank
L. Rosenthal, Oqlumbus, Qa.; Rab
bi Abraham Shusterman, ' Athens,
Ga.; Rabbi Joseph Letser, Augusta,
Ga.; Rabbi George Solomon, Sa
vannah, Ga.; Rabbi David Marx,
Atlanta, Ga.; Rabbi Ed, F. Cook,
has aroused tremendous enthusi
asm throughout Palestine Jewry Macon, and Rabbi Sidney Nissen-
because its purchase climaxed twen- baum, Macon; all of whom took an
ty years of negotiations by Dr. active part in the program. ■
Chaim Weizmann, the late Chaim f 1 » ■ ■'■
A’losoroff and Joshua Hankin, 70- Doctor To Address
year-old agronomist, with the Syro-
Ottoman Agricultural Company
which owned the Huleh tract. The u&am ^ Q ,
trailer of the concessioni from Its WaMlbaum . Jr kc m Si , lu
Syrian Arab owners to the Pales- the H , h at the m „ tln a ' ( the
tine Land Development Company - - - - - -
Beth Israel Group
WOULD MAKE YOM KUPPER
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
AND HUMILIATION
Harrisburg, Pa. (WNS)—The
Pennsylvania Council of Churches
has before it a suggestion from the
Rev. Dr. Charles D. Brodhead, of
Bethlehem, that in 1935 the day
of Yom Kopper should be pro
claimed and observed as a na
tional day of prayer and humilia
tion. Explaining his unique sug
gestion, Dr. Brodhead said that
“the Day of Atonement is the logi
cal day for such a day of national
prayer and humiliation. It has
the advantage of being the most,
solemn day in the Jewish calen- 1
dar. It will be another witness to
our common religious bond with
the Jew in this day of anti-Sem
itic pressure. It will be a mutual
project to meet a situation that,
a subsidiary of the Keren Hayesod, Je armgx
was effected at a reputed cost of m m i
$1 003,000.
The Huleh area embraces 200,000
dunams (50,000 acres) around Lake
Huleh on the Syrian frontier, but
only 57,000 dunams are included in
the concession, which is the great
est Jewish land acquisition since
the purchase of the Emek. Of this
area 37,000 dunams will be available
for Jewish colonization while 10,-
000 dunams have been set aside for.
the Arab squatters now on the
land. The Jewish owners will fin
ance the cost of draining the land
and making all necessary improve
ments. When the reclamation has
been completed the Huleh district
will be the most fertile In Palestine.
Arab residents at Huleh, who will
gain by the Jewish ownership, sent
a delegation to Jerusalem to wel
come their new Jewish neighbors
and to vo'ce their satisfaction at
the new deal they are to get.
Beth Israel Sisterhood at the Tem-
Dr. Waxelbaum, here for a visit
with his mother, Mrs. Gates Waxel
baum, has recently returned from a
trip , as ship’s doctor on three
cruises, one of which was to Nor
way and Sweden, and told of bis
.experiences.
The program also Included
selections by Mrs. Ira
Shearith Israel Holds
Package Party in Macon
Macon, Georgia — The Ladies
Auxiliary of The Shearith Israel
Synagogue of Macon, held a pack
age party in the Auditorium of the
Synagogue, Mrs. Rubin, President,
turning the chair over to Mrs. H.
Koplan, who presided for the eve
ning.
Opening the session with the
singing of Hatikva, the address of
welcome was given by Mr. Kaxesh,
President of the Synagogue. A short
talk by Miss Sarah Chanin, on the
work of the Judean Sisters In Jew
ish History; Recitation by Miss
Shirley Kassner; Piano selection by
Mrs. EJ>de Galkin Slnerberg; "Why
Jerusalem (WNS)—The per
plexing question, to tip or not
to tip, has finally been solved in
Jerusalem as the result of an un
derstanding between the restau
rant and cafe owners and the ho- Benji hkee Chanakah”, by Mr. hr-
tel and restaurant workers’ union ving Karesh; “The Menorah" team
which forbids tipping. To make the works of Theodore Herael, by
up for the loss of tips, the res- Mr. Alvin Rubin. A short lecture by
tau’-ant owners have agreed to Rabbi Sidney Nissenbaum.
add a 10 percent service charge to The financial results of the party
patron’s bills, the charge to be were added to the funds of the
shared by the workers.
Auxiliary for next year’s work.