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VOL. X—NO. 15.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935.
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ANNOUNCES SELF
AS CANDIDATE FDR
PRESIDENCY IN 1936
Ex-Congressman, Long Notorious as
Jew-Baiter, Seeks To Rally
Anti-Semites
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—Anti-
Semitism as a political platform
mad? its first appearance in the
annals of American politics here
when Louis T. McFadden, former
Republican Congressman from
Pennsylvania, who was defeated in
1934 after serving twenty years, an
nounced his candidacy for the
presidency of the United States in
1936 on k program of out and out
opposition to the Jews. McFadden,
who has long been known as a Jew-
baiter through his anti-Semitic
speeches in Congress, his circula
tion of anti-Semitic literature
through the mails and his outspoken
defense of the “Protocols of the El
ders of Zion,” is seeking the high
est office in the land under the
sponsorship of an organization call
ing itself the “Independent Repub
lican National Christian-Gentile
Committee,” or, as it is also known,
the "Christian Economics Independ
ent Republican National Commit
tee.”
McFadden announced his candi
dacy in a series of circulars mailed
from his headquarters in the Hotel
Mayflower. His sponsoring organi
zation is described as a group com
prising “Catholics and Protestants
with a potential membership of sev
eral million. John T. McAndrews,
press agent for McFadden’s backers,
was formerly connected with James
F. True, founder and leader of
"America First!,” one of the recent
crop of incipient Fascist groups that
has sprung up. McFadden’s plat
form consists of four planks:
Christianity instead of Judaism;
Americanism against Communism;
Nationalism against International
ism; and Individualism instead of
Collectivism.”
The committee backing McFad
den’s presidential campaign an
nounces itself as being opposed to
Ame' ican entrance into the League
of Nations and the World Court
because “both parliamentary units
are nothing more or less than a
plan of world-wide Jewry to enslave
T -he entire world.” The committee
warns that America is in danger if
it allows the Jews to force it into
the League and the World Court.
Repeating all the usual libels of
anti-Semites throughout the world,
McFadden’s campaign circular as
serts that the Jews already control
he press and the radio, denounces
all Jews, including the Jewish capi-
alists, as Communists and pledges
'hat “they cannot, and never will,
rr >ntrol the conscience of our great
Ctiristian church leaders and the
membership therein.” The circular
includes with an appeal that all
ho receive it should mobilize to
decent American entrance into the
ague and the World Court.
Other literature sent out by Me
zen’s committee is embellished
h such statements as "Commun-
- Jew Deal,” “Jews and Com-
“ Jnism .” “Jewry Warned,” “Keep
, r U! Christian Churches Open in
"Keep the Jew Out of Con-
- of the Republican Party” and
er 40,000,000 Christian-Gentiles
,' Wrong in 1936.” In one
■ - let there is a direct warning of
pogrom when McFadden asks:
1 t there be an open mass march
u riots to Purge Washington of
( Continued on page four)
Carl Schurz Relatives
Protest Nazi Exploi
tation Of Name
Protest Issued By Twelve Of His
Surviving Relatives And
Friends.
New York (WNS)—A protest
against the use of the name of Carl
Schurz, German American diplomat
and patriot of the last century, by
organizations with Nazi affiliations
has been issued by twelve of his
surviving relatives and friends, the
latter including Professors E. R. A.
Seligman and Franz Boas.
Citing the record of Schurz as a
defender of democratic institutions,
the protest declares that "nothing
could be more grotesque than the
use of the name of Carl Schurz” in
connection with the Hitler despo
tism. “A friend to many Jews,” the
statement continues, “he never
failed to denounce anti-Semitism. A
distinguished veteran of many bat
tlefields, he abhorred from the
depths of his soul every manifesta
tion of militarism, every militaris
tic regiminentation, every effort to
uniform and goose-step the youth
of the nation.”
Constancy Elected
First Vice-Consul
Frank Alan Constangy, Atlanta
attorney, was elected to the office
of First Vice-Consul of Tau Epsi
lon Phi faternity at its recent Sil
ver Jubilee Convention, it was an-
nouced by the local chapters.
Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity is the
largest national Jewish collegiate
fraternity, having 36 active under
graduate chapters and 24 alumni
chapters, a great many of which
are located in the South. The un
dergraduate chapters include those
at University of Georgia, Georgia
Tech, Emory, College of Charleston,
Universities of Florida, North Caro
lina, and Arkansas.
It was at the Silver Jubilee Con
vention that a memorial award was
created to the memory of the late
Victor H. Kreigshaber, who was a
brother of the fraternity, and long
prominent in the civic, social and
religious life of Atlanta. The award
is known as the Victor H. Kreig
shaber Award, and is to be present
ed annually to one of the chapters
of the fraternity. *
Seven Polish Anti-
Semites Get Stiff
Prison Sentences
Warsaw (WNS)—Seven of the nine
teen members of the outlawed anti-
Semitic National Radical Party
charged with taking part in an anti-
Jewish riot in Lodz last year and
insulting Marshall Pilsudski were
found guilty and sentenced to pris
on for terms ranging from ten to
thirty months. The twelve other de
fendants were acquitted. Among
those convicted was the leader of
the National Radicals in Lodz.
To Mark Hebrew
Week Here In March
New York (WNS)—Hebrew Week
will be celebrated throughout the
United States at the end of March
under the auspices of the Histad-
ruth Ivrith, it was announced here
by Abe Goldberg, executive chair
man of the Histadruth Ivrith. He
brew week in this country will coin
cide with the world congress of the
B’rith Ivrith in Palestine and the
beginning of the celebrations mark
ing the 800th anniversary of the
birth of Moses Maimonides.
JEWISH AGENCY
ANNOUNCES BUDGET
Keren Ilayesod Budget For The
Coming Year Will Amount To
Almost $2,500,000
Jerusalem (WNS—Palcor Agency)
—The Keren Hayesod budget for
the coming year will amount to al
most $2,500,000, it was announced
here by Eliezer Kaplan, treasurer of
the Jewish Agency Executive, at a
conference for representatives of
the Palestinian and world press, Af
ter a lapse of seven years, the Keren
Hayesod will restart a large-scale
program of colonization, it was
announced. Sixty per cent, the larg
est amount ever set aside for that
purpose, of the budget will be dedi
cated to colonization activities, Mr.
Kaplan stated. The new coloniza
tion will open a new era in the his
tory of the Jewish Agency, he ad
ded, pointing out that the ability
of the Executive to dedicate so large
a share of its expendituses to col
onization is due to the success of
the Executive’s financial policy,
which had succeeded in reducing
debts by over 100,000 and obtaining
the first external loan at more fav
orable terms than are obtained by
the great established nations.
The settlers who were enabled to
go on the land through loans ex
tended by the Keren Hayesod are
now beginning to repay those loans,
it was revealed. This had also been
helpful in settling a considerable
number of new immigrants, es
pecially German Jews. Leib Jaffe,
director of the Keren Hayesod, em
phasized that there had been gen
eral progress in obtaining fresh wat
er resources. Reviewing the last de
cade of its activity, he said that the
Keren Hayesod had invested 1,600,-
000 in Palestinian agriculture. The
population of the Keren Hayesod
settlements numbers 12,000 today in
comparison with 3,000 in 1924.
The progress made by these set
tlements is indicated by the fact
that the milk production increased
from 500,000 litres in 1924 to 10,-
000,000 today. Immigration, indus
try and educational activities had
been assisted by the Karen Hayesod
at the same time, Jaffe pointed out.
It had also established the General
Mortgage Bank which distributed
ov£r 1,000,000 up to 1935. Reporting
further on the influence exerted by
the Keren Hayesod, Jaffe stated
that forty-five labor settlements
had been established in twenty-four
colonies providing for 5,500 work
ers.
Dr. Arthur Ruppin member of the
Executive and foremost social eco
nomist, declared at the conference
that “without the national funds the
development of private enterprises
would have been impossible.” Em
phasizing that after a seven years
interval, the colonization program is
being restarted, he said that 8,000
families in Palestine are awaiting
settlement. The health of the coun
try’s growth demands, he said, that
the Jewish rural population must be
increased to a third of the Yishub.
It was also announced that the
Jewish Agency is establishing a
company to further colonization ac
tivities. Through the discovery of
water resources, 200,000 dunams of
land already in Jewish possession
can be opened for new Jewish col
onization providing for 12,000 fam
ilies, it was stated. Vast tracts of
desert soil in the South of Pales
tine are exploitable if the water is
available, Dr. Ruppin pointed out.
It is, therefore, intended to create
a central institution for the investi
gation of water problems.
Rundschau Urges
German Jews Sue
Streicher For Libel
The Juedische Rundschau, German
Zionist Organ, Created A
Sensation Here
Berlin (WNS)—The Juedische
Rundschau, German Zionist organ,
created a sensation here with an
article calling on the Jewish Repre
sentative Council to institute libel
proceedings against Julius Streicher,
Nazi overlord of Franconia and the
most notorious anti-Semite in the
Reich, for making false charges
against the Jews in the form of a
new “feature” appearing in his
paper, Der Stuermer. This new
“feature” comprises public an
nouncements allegedly made by
Jews, but which are actually man
ufactured by Streicher. Typical of
these announcements are the fol
lowing: “Wanted, blonde Aryan girl
for Jewish young man sexually ma
ture,” and “For Sale, Jewish wine
mixed with Christian blood.”
New Hillel Foundation
Planned For Penn State
To Be Established Next Autumn
At Pennsylvania State
College.
Cincinnati, Ohio (WNS)—The
tenth in the chain of Hillel Founda
tions, Jewish student organizations
maintained and supported in Amer
ican colleges by the B’nai B’rith, is
to be established next autumn at
Pennsylvania State College, it was
announced at the close of the an
nual meeting of the B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation Commission.
There are nearly four hundred Jew
ish students at Penn State, which
has total student body of five
thousand. The new Hillel Founda
tion will have the support and co
operation of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods,
which in the past has been support
ing a local Jewish student organiza
tion on the campus. Penn State is
located in a small town where Jew
ish students have few if any Jew
ish contacts. The Foundation will
supply the long felt need for a rab
bi, Jewish cultural and social center
and an organization to represent
Jewish students of all opinions.
Other Hillel Foundations exist at
the Universities of Illinois, Wiscon
sin, Ohio State, Michigan, Cornell,
Texas, California, Alabama and
Northwestern.
Britain Chooses Palestine
Air Sites For Non-Stop
To India
Jerusalem (WNS—Palcor Agen
cy)—Noy-stop flights from Pales
tine to Karachi, India will now be
possible for British civil and mili
tary aviation, as a result of the
definite selection of new airport
sites, it was learned here by the
Palcor Agency. The Palestine Gov
ernment, it is reliably reported, has
chosen sites for two airports, one
outside of Lydda and the other
outside of Haifa. It is expected that
Lydda will become the main land
ing ground for flights from England
to India, eliminating stops at Gaza,
Rutbah Wells and Bagdad. An in
tensive development of civil avia
tion in Palestine is now expected in
view of the appointment of an
Englishman as director of Civil
Aviation, who formerly held the
same po6t in Iraq.
PRIEST, RABBI AND
MINISTER TO MAKE
GOOD WILL TOUR
■■ •
Will Open Four-Week Tour Of
Southern Cities at the Univer
sity of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N. C. (WNS)—A
travelling good will team consisting
of a Protestant clergyman, a rabbi
and a Catholic priest will open a
four-week tour of 8outhem cities
at the University of North Carolina
on January 28th under the auspices
of the National Conference of Jews
and Christians. The team will con
sist of Father T. Lawrason Riggs,
chaplain of the Catholic Club at
Yale University; Rev. Everett R.
Clinchy, director of the National
Conference; and Rabbi Morris 8.
Lazaron of Baltimore. Visits will
be made to Winston-Salem, North
Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida;
Palm Beach, Florida; Rollins Col
lege, Florida; Montgomery, Birm
ingham and the University of Ala
bama; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Roan
oke, Virginia; Providence, Rhode
Island; and New Haven and Stam
ford, Connecticut. After February
7th, Rabbi Lazaron will be replaced
by Rabbi Philip Bernstein of Roch
ester, New York. The three clergy
men will arrange seminars and con
ferences on the subject of closer
understanding between the various
faiths and will address clubs, schools
and women’s groups on “Making
America Safe for Differences,” “The
Relations of the Social Ideals and
programs of Religious Groups to
Social Welfare,” and “What Are the
Most Practical Steps and Methods
for Furthering Mutual Understand
ing and Civic Cooperation between
Religious Groups.” A second tour
covering a different section of the
country and including as speakers
Rabbi Louis Binstock of New Or
leans, Reverend Clinchy and a
Catholic priest to be named later
will begin on March 5th.
Jews Of Thrace Suffer
From Economic Boycott
Saloniki (WNS)—Since last July's
pogrom in Adrianople, the Jews of
Turkish Thrace have been suffer
ing from a relentless organized eco
nomic boycott which dooms 30,000 of
them to slow starvation unless they
can find new homes in other conn-
tries, according to reports In the
Jewish press here. The situation in
Thrace is so serious that the presi
dent of the Adrianople Jewish com
munity, M. Filosa, has gone to Pal
estine to obtain an allotment of
immigration certificates ana to try
to raise relief funds, the press de
clares.
Lady Waley Cohen
Buried In Jerusalem
Jerusalem (WNS—Palcor Agency)
—Lady Robert Waley Cohen, who
died at the Government Hospital
of injuries received in a car smash-
up, was buried here in the Bent-
wich family burial ground on Mount
Scopus. A minyan said prayers at
Sir Robert’s bed, prior to the fun
eral. which was attended by repre
sentative Jews. Among those pres
ent were Sir John Cadman and
other directors of the Iraq Petroleum
Company, Sir Arthur Wauchope’s
secretary and Moshe Shertok, rep
resenting the Jewish Agency.