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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.