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VOL. X—NO. 14.
For Southern Jewry
ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1935.
Price: Five Cent*
CONFERENCE VOTES
COORDINATIONOF
PALESTINE AGENCIES
A Committe Was Appointed to
Select the Personnel of the
American Commission
1,500 DELEGATES ATTEND
The Conference Further Went on
Record as Favoring Another
Such Gathering in 1936
Noted Novelist
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—
Coordination of all existing pub
lic and private agencies in this
country into a single American
commission for the economic de
velopment of Palestine is to be
organized as an outgrowth of a
resolution voted at the conclud
ing session of the epoch-making
first National Conference for Pal
estine which was attended by more
than 1,500 delegates, representing
1,240,000 Jews, and comprising the
most representative Jewish gather
ing in American history. In an
other resolution the Conference
recommended that the Jewish
Agency, set up. a world-wide plan
ning body for Palestine with which
the proposed American commis
sion would cooperate.
A committee of nine was ap
pointed to select the personnel of
the American commission, which
will consist of economic experts.
The committee of nine includes
Dr. I. m. Rubinow, executive sec
retary of the B’nai B’rith; Morris
D. Waldman, secretary of the
American Jewish Committee; Har-
r y L* Glucksman, executive direc
tor of the National Jewish Wel
fare Board; Prof. Chaim Fineman
of the Poale Zion; Mrs. Edward
Jacobs, president of Hadassah;
Israel Brodie, chairman of the
Palestine Economic Committee;
David Wertheim, Louis Lipsky,
Morris Rothenberg and Abraham
Schnur.
The Conference further went
on record as favoring another such
gathering in 1936. The date,
agenda and other datails regard-
* r,g toe next National Conference
‘Or Palestine were left to a com-
miaee of twenty-five, compris
ing Bernard S. Deutsch, Rabbi
^amuel Goldman, Mrs. Edward
Jacobs, Abraham Goldberg; Max
uverstein, Dr. Israel Goldstein,
7? uls Se eal, Rabbi Wolf Gold, Mrs.
A ex Brin, Isaac Hamlin, Rabbi
Wlas Margolis, Leo Wolfson, Mor-
p Rothenberg, Louis, J. Rocker,
benjamin Winter, Simon M. Gold-
® lth ’ Louis J. Moss, Dr. Cyrus
Jud ee William Lewis, Elihu
, ,. ne and Alfred M. Cohen. Reso-
ions calling on American Jewry
np i , Upport toe United Jewish Ap-
f a . an< * urging Great Britian to
p„ c , ^ ate a larger immigration to
e^ine were also adopted.
Sholom Asch, noted Yiddish nov
elist, arrived in this country on
a visit last week. Most recent
of his American publications is
"Salvation," a novel of Hassi-
dism in Poland.
PALESTINE LEADER
TOjPEAK HERE
Mr. Samuel Sigal, Well Known
Leader of Palestine Labor
Group In America.
BLACK HITLER
SETS TEN-DAY
JAIL SENTENCE
Negro Agitator Known As “Black
Hitler” Is Spending Ten Days
In The Workhouse
New York (WNS)—Sufi Abdul
Hamid, the Negro agitator known
as the “Black Hitler” is spending
ten days in the workhouse, where
he was sentenced by Magistrate
Thomas Aurelio who found him
guilty of preaching atheism and
distributing literature containing
material reflecting on all religious
groups. Hamid was responsible for
an outbreak of economic anti-Se
mitism in Harlem last year. .
Johnson Criticized For
Appointing Jews to NRA
General Hugh S. Johnson, Former
Head of The NRA, Criticized
For Appointing Jews.
Mr. Samuel Sigal well known
leader of the Palestine Labor Group
in America, member of the Jewish
Agency, delegate to the last Zionist
Congress who has recently returned
from an extensive trip to Palestine
is visiting this city and will deliver
an address on conditions in Pales
tine and the recent developments.
The address will be delivered at the
Jewish Educational Alliance, Capi
tol Avenue, Sunday, January 27,
3:30 P. M.
Everybody welcome. No collection.
Admission free.
destine Orange
Export In Upswing
Mem (WNS — Palcor Agen-
A sharp upswing in Palestine’s
‘-=e exports, which constitute
1 toe country’s export values,
b - reveale( > with the publication
* ° range Export Association of
l 3th lowing that up to January
11 ,045,122 cases of oranges had
n . lr T, cx P° r ted this season. The
Vp 1 ^ for the same period last
a as 1349,069 cases.
Poland Reduces
Orange Import
Duty To Palestine
Reduction of Eighty Per Cent in
Import Duty Announced
Jerusalem (WNS — Palcor Agen
cy)—A reduction of eighty per cent
in the orange import duty from
Palestine to Poland was officially
announced here by the Press Bu
reau of the Palestine Government.
This action opens up for Palestine
the potentially richest market in
Europe, which is Poland. Hereafter,
the duty will be fourty-four instead
of 220 slotys per hundred kilograms.
The new duty is effective, it is
said, as of December 31st.
Philadelphia (WNS) — General
Hugh S. Johnson, former head of
the NRA, was criticized for allegedly
appointing too many Jews to im
portant positions during the time he
headed the NRA, the fiery general
reveals in an article in the Saturday
Evening Post. He points out that
Donald R. Richberg, labor attorney
whom Johnson brought into the
NRA as general counsel and who
later succeeded Johnson, was cited
against me on that score too. Just
for the sake of the record, Mr.
Richberg is not a Jew. If he had
been, it would have made no dif
ference to me' I tried to get the
best staff I could persuade to serve,
and I did not stop to Inquire wheth
er they were Jews or Gentiles. I had
several able Jews, but they were a
very scanty minority and every
single one of them did an outstand
ing job. Not one was either dis
loyal or self-seeking.
Vladimir Jabotinsky, who will
soon visit this country on an ex
tended lecture tour, scored a de
cisive victory over the more
extremists of the Revisionists
when he was re-elected president
of the World Revisionist Union
at Karkow where the sixth world
conference of the group was
held.
The Nassah Israel
Sisterhood Holds
Benefit Bridge
The Nassah Israel Sisterhood, lo
cated at 340 Central Avenue, will
sponsor a benefit bridge at Rich’s
Tea Room, January 29th at 3 P. M.
Prizes will be given, and a cordial
invitation is extended to everyone.
The admission price is twenty-five
cents and tickets may either be ob
tained at the door of the Tea Room,
or from the following officers of the
Sisterhood and also from members
of the Sisterhood: President, Mrs.
I. N. Benveniste; Vice-President,
Mrs. Sol Pina; Secretary, Mrs.
Louis Cohen; Treasurer, Mrs. Nace
Amato.
HOLMES TO SPEAK AT
WESLEY MEMORIAL
“Hitlerism vs. Bolshevism—A Study
In Comparative Revolutions” Is
The Subject of Address.
LEAGUE TO AID
SAAR REFUGEES
BUT HAVENO FUNDS
Acting On French Recommendation
That Refugees From The
Saar Be Cared For.
MEETS IN JANUARY, 1936
France Would Provide Homes Far
The Refugees And Care For
The Needy.
“Hitlerism vs. Bolshevism. A Study
in Comparative Revolutions” is the
subject of the address which Dr.
John Haynes Holmes of New York
City will deliver on Tuesday even
ing, January 29 at 8:30 o’clock at
the Wesley Memorial Church. Spec
ial attention is brought to the fact
that the place of the lecture has
been changed to the Wesley Memor
ial Church in view of the unexpect
ed increase in the advance slae of
tickets. Dr. Holmes will appear
under the ..auspices of the Atlanta
(Continued on page three)
Turkish Authorities
Bar Vessel With
Jewish Passengers
Fifty Jewish Passengers, Most of
Them Girls, Refused Entrance.
Istanbul (WNS)—The Rumanian
vessel Dacia, carrying fifty Jewish
passengers, most of them girls,
from Poland and Latvia, was refus
ed permission to enter Istnbul har
bor. The Dacia came nere from
Beirut, Syria, where the authorities
refused to let her passengers land
for fear they might try to smuggle
themselves into Palestine.
B’nai B’rith Annouces Committees For 1935
Edward N. Kahn, executive di
rector of the Jewish Educational
Alliance, was officially installed
as the 1935 president of the Gate
City Lodge, No. 144, B’nai B’rith,
at a dinner-meeting held last
evening, at the Standard Club,
on Ponce de Leon Avenue.
Other officers installed were
Joseph M. Brown, first vice-pres
ident; Dr. Joseph Yanpolsky, sec
ond vice-president; Dr. I. H. Gold
stein, third vice-president; Leon
Kletzly, secretary, and Harry
Abelson, treasurer. The 1935 Board
of Trustees will be Jack Weinkle,
chairman; Berry Rittenbaum,
Rabbi Joseph Cohen, David Marz,
Jr., Joseph Goldberg, Jack Ich-
tenstein, Milton Klein, Edward
Vajda, Joe Wolfe and Stephen
Scbiffer.
Before relinquishing his chair
to the new president, Dr. L. C.
Rouglin spoke on the accomplish
ments under his administration
during 1934, and Phil Tennen-
baum, the other only retiring of
ficer, was praised for his splendid
work as treasurer of the order.
Accepting the leadership with
the pledge to make the Gate City
Lodge the biggest in the South,
Edward M. Kahn, in the main
address of the evening, spoke to
the large gathering on the “Work
of the B’nai B’rith,” and also told
of the work to be carried on as
outlined for the Jewish people
at the National Conference on
Jewish welfare which he recently
attended in New York as a del
egate.
“Without a doubt, the many
phases of B’nai B’rith activity will
be carried on more successfully
than ever before,” stated Mr.
Kahn, “and this will be contrib
uted to the assistance of those
who have enrolled during our re-
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Geneva (WNS)—Acting on the
French recommendation that the
refugees from the Saar be cared
for through funds provided by the
League of Nations, the Council of
the League tacitly shouldered moral
and financial responsibility for the
Saar refugees when it instructed
its rapporteur on refugees to sub
mit definite proposals at its next
session in May. Immediate action
on League aid for the refugees was
deferred when Joseph Avenol, sec
retary-general of the League, told
the Council that the League’s bud
get had exhausted all available
funds for this purpose and that no
additional funds could be voted un
til the League’s Assembly meets
again in January, 1936.
The action of the Council was the
result of a French memorandum
which said that France would pro
vide homes for the refugees and
care for the needy, but that she
was unable “to leave the door open
to emigration Into her territory if
she cannot count on the effective
cooperation of the League.”
Reich Trade Figures
For 1934 Show Effect*
■ Of Anti-Nazi Boycott
World-Wide Anti-Nazi Boycott Cot
German Exports Almost
In Half.
Berlin (WNS)—The world-wide
anti-Nazi boycott cut German ex
ports almost in half since the ad
vent of the Nazi regime two years
ago, it was revealed here with the
publication of Germany’s trade
figures for 1934. These figures show
that the Reich had an unfavorable
balance of 285,000,000 marks ($69,-
825,000) for the year Just ended,
compared with a favorable balance
of 667,000,000 marks ($163,415,000)
In 1933. In the last two years Ger-'
many’s total volume of exports de
clined by 1,572,000,000 marks ($385,-
140,000). In 1931, the volume of ex
ports totaled 9,599,000,000 marks,
($2,351,755,000). Germany’s exports
in 1934 were less than half the 1931,
maximum figure, totaling but 4,-
167,000,000 marks ($1,020,915,000).
While the foreign trade of other
countries, notably the United States,
and England, has been recovering
from the low levels of the last two
years, Germany’s exports took an
other' drop of 704,000,000 marks
($172,480,000).
PALESTINE IMPORTS $250,000
WORTH OF GOODS
FROM BULGARIA
Sofia (WNS)—The economic
importance of Palestine to Bul
garia is stressed by the Bulgarian
press, which points out that the
9,000 Bulgarian Jews living in
Palestine imported $250,000 worth
of Bulgarian goods last year, al
though Bulgaria did not buy a
dollar’s worth of goods from Pal
estine.