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SCIMIERN ISRAEIIIE
VOL- X—NO. 18.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1935.
BRITISH MINISTER
CONFIRMS REPORTS OF
ANTI-SEMITISM, IRAQ
Price Five Cents
Committeeman
Told House That Information He
Had Gathered “To Some Extent
Supported Published Reports”
London (WNS)—Official confirm
ation of reports of govemment-en-
oouraged anti-Semitic activities in
Iraq was given to the House of
Commons by Sir John Simon, Bri
tish Foreign Minister, when he
answered a barrage of questions on
the subject from various members.
He told the House that informa
tion he had gathered “to some ex
tent supported published reports”
but he added that “I have no reas
on to believe, however, that the
Iraqui Government has taken any
action to prejudice the position of
the B itish Government in Pales
tine.” Since Iraq is now an inde
pendent country, this statement
was regarded as an indication that
England could take no action in
connection with Jewish persecution
unless Palestine was involved. It is
learned, however, that Sir John is
unofficially taking steps to miti
gate anti-Semitism in Iraq. For sev
eral weeks there have been reports
that Jewish officials in Iraq had
been discharged, that Jewish child
ren were mistreated in the schools,
that all Jewish newspapers had been
suppressed and that prominent
Jews, among them a member of the
Sassoon family, had been arrested.
One Jew, M. Devi, a bookseller, is
erving a long prison sentence for
having informed the outside world
of the anti-Semitic policy now in
vogue.
MR. SIDNEY J. STERN,
Greensboro, N. C. Executive Com
mittee, District No. 5.
SPECIALIST SPEAKS
ATLANTA SOUTHERN
DENTAL COLLEGE
MANY DELEGATES
COMING TO B’NAI
B'RITH CONVENTION
Vice President
Mass Meeting to be Held at Tem
ple Sunday Evening; Dr. A .L.
Sachar Speaks
Several hundred B’nai B’rith
members from Georgia, Florida,
North and South Carolina. Vir
ginia, District of Columbia, and
Maryland, are expected to parti
cipate in the 59 th convention of
District Grand Lodge No. 5, B’nai
B’rith, to be held in Atlanta Sun
day and Monday, March 10 and
11.
Plans for the meeting have been
completed, it was announced Fri
day, by Hyman S. Jacobs, general
chairman of the convention com
mittee. Included on the full two-
day program will be bussiness ses-
soins, banquets, luncheons, sight
seeing trips, and a visit to the
Hebrew Orphans’ Home here,
which is maintained largely by
B’nai B’rith.
JAPAN IS ASKED TO
INTERVENE ANTI-
SEMITIC AGITATION
Salto Promised to do This and
Associated Himself Fully With
the Statements
MR. ABE SHEFFERMAN
of Washington, D. C., and First
vice president of District Grand
Lodge No. 5, B’nai B’rith, who will
come to Atlanta on March 10th to
participate in the 59th Convention
of that district.
Palestine Electric
Corporation Shares
Are Oversubscribed
London (WNS *— Palcor Agency)
— An oversubscription of twelve
umes the offered shares of the
Palestine Electric Corporation was
reported by Lord Reading, chair-
•nan of the board of directors of
the Corporation. The electric com
pany had placed on sale with the
®ty of London shares to the value
of £1,200,000. But the subscriptions
from bankers totalled £13,500,000,
‘Pdicating the high confidence that
1S * e *t by the City in the future of
Palestine’s development.
The corporation has a concession
o supply electricity to all of Pales
tine except Jerusalem and environs
Wruc h fs covered by the Mavroma-
^ ' °ncessioi>. The main works of
‘‘ e Corporation are at Tel Or at
7 e Junction of the Yarmuk and
• ordan Rivers, five miles south of
Lak« of Tiberias, utilizing the wa-
• - ahs there. There are generat-
i, 4 works in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
founder and general manager
? ttle Company is Pincus Ruten-
berg.
Stressed the Importance of Proper
Food for Children During
Early Years
Iraq
P etroleum
Has First Strike
'..a (WNS—Palcor Agency) —
, e strike on the Iraq Petro-
'' vV orks, whose costly pipe-line
... . Mosul oil fields was dedi-
‘ k £re a month ago, is now on.
* and Jewish laborers quii
- in protest against the reduc-
n c. wages. Negotiations were
£ ,= Jn . immedia tely to lead to a re-
^•- Ption of work, as the Petroleum
fir ’f any officers are having a dif-
tiif 11116 111 any case supply
* eav y demands at the Haifa
Port.
Dr. S. A. Visanska, prominent
pediatrician and pharmacist, lec
tured before the students of At
lanta Southern Dental College on
the subject “Malnutrician or why
the child does not grow in weight
and in mentality.” Dr. Visanska
stressed the importance of proper
food for children during their
early years.
Dr. Visanska, author of “Better
Babies,” a book written for moth
ers, is well known for his pioneer
work in Atlanta medical history.
He came to Atlanta thirty-five
years ago to establish his medical
practice just after his period of
interneship. Always interested in
child welfare, Dr. Visanska, upon
his settling in Atlanta, offered free
services to charity and civic work
in the establishing of Atlanta’s
first baby clinic. He was the first
physcian who became interested
in the Home for Incurables, and
also served as member of the med-
cal Milk Commission appointed by
the Fulton County Medical So
ciety for the control of certified
milk.
JUNIOR STUDENT
City Of Tel Aviv
Extends Boundaries
Tel Aviv (WNS—Palcor Agency)
—This rapidly-growing city will en
large its boundaries, it was made
known, as the result of the pur
chase of several hundreds of dun
ams of land on the other side of
the Yarkon River. This will mark
the beginning of an expansion to
ward Herzliah.
The most important feature of
the convention will be a mass
meeting to be held at the Tem
ple Sunday evening, at which time
Dr. Sachar, of Chicago, will de
liver the principal address. Dr.
Sachar, a speaker of note, is pro
fessor of history at the University
of Illinois, and national director of
B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations at
American colleges. He spoke in
Atlanta about two months ago and
won such wide acclaim that he
was invited to return and address
the B’nai B’rith convention. Of
ficial headquarters for the con
vention will be at the Ansley Ho
tel and the gatherjng will be cli
maxed by an elaborate banquet
and dance at the Standard Club,
Monday evening.
Officers and members of the
District Grand Lodge No. 5 exe
cutive committee are Dr. Leon
Banov, Charleston, S. C., presi
dent; A. Shefferman, Washington,
D. C„ first vice-president; William
Goodhart, Baltimore, Md., treas
urer; Edwin L. Levy, Richmond,
Va., secretary; H. A. Alexander,
Atlanta, constitution Grand Lodge
representative; Sidney J. Stern,
Greensboro, N. C.; L. J. Levitas,
Atlanta; David Davis, Jacksonville,
Fla.; and Joseph Fromberg.
Charleston, 8. C., committeeman.
The delegates representing the
Gate City Lodge No. 144, B’nai
B’rith, to the District Grand Lodge
No. 5 convention will be Rabbi
David Marx, Joseph Loewus, A. L.
Feldman, H. S. Jacobs L. J. Le
vitas, Joseph Brown .Joseph
Wolfe, Dr. L. C. Rouglin, J. N.
Reisman, Jack Brail, H. A. Alex-
.nder, Milton Klien, Leonard Haas,
and Dr. B. A. Wildauer.
SERVICES CONDUCTED
BY SHUSTERMAN
Third Annual Jewish Students’
Services Were Held Recent
ly at Athens
Athens, Ga.—The Third annual
Jewish Students’ Services were
held recently at the Athens Temple
under the direction of Rabbi Abra
ham Shusterman.
The participants were as follows:
Invocation. Marvin Nathan, of O-
cilla; Reading of Service, Daniel
Katzoff, Savannah, Edmund Lon
don Jr., Albany, Morris Abram,
Fitzgerald; Solo, Herbert Segal,
New York; Address, Elliott Gold
stein, Atlanta; Benediction, Leon
Kahn. Bainbrldge.
A service conducted by the co
eds will be held in May.
Wauchope Defends
Land Transfer
Jerusalem (WNS) — Palcor
Agency)—Justification for the
transfer of the Hartieh land to
the Jewish National Fund was of
fered by High Commissioner
Wauchope in replying to a pro
test by the Mufti of Jerusalem
who visited him in connection
with the Hartieh incident when
a Bedouin was killed. In answer
ing the protests of the Mufti, the
High Commissioner is reported to
have said that the land was or
dered vacated of trespassers as
a result of the decision of the
courts and that the police fired
upon the squatters only after they
had been attacked.
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—
Evidence of anti-Semitlo agita
tion in Manchukuo, a Japanese
protectorate, and charges that
Manchukuoan officials were en
couraging it, were laid before Hi-
rosi Salto, Japanese ambassador
to the United States, by Dr. Steph
en S. Wise and Prof. Horace Kal-
len of the American Jewish Con
gress. Emphasizing that the Jews
of Manchukuo were worried over
this situation and recalling prom
ises by the Japanese minister to
China and the Japanese vice-
minister of foreign affairs that
the Mikado’s government would
not permit persecution of the Jews
in any area where it had influ
ence or responsibility, Drs. Wise
and Kallen asked Mr. Saito to
forward to Tokio a request that
the Japanese government allay the
fears ol the Manchukuoan Jews
by intervening in their behalf
with the Manchukuoan govern
ment. Mr. Saito promised to do
this and associated himself fully
with the statements made by Jap
anese statesmen in the Orient
University In Exile
Hailed As Important
Educational Success
New York (WNS—The Univers
ity in Exile, launched two years
ago as an experiment designed
to find places for some of the
scholars exiled from Germany tty
the Nazi regime, is not only a
success but constitutes a German
faculty equal to the best Ger
many ever boasted and a valuable,
addition to the American educa
tional system, Dr. Alvin Johnson,
founder of the school,and director
of the New School for Social Re
search, with which it is affiliated,
announced in a report to the ad
visory committee set up to admin
ister the school. The gruduate fac
ulty of eighteen, has until now
been made financially possible by
Hiram J. Halle, who underwrote
the experiment to the extent of
$120,000, but a drive to raise a
permanent fund of $75,000 a year
is to be launched. The University
in Exile functions under a con
stitution which is a landmark in
educational history in that it
grants to the faculty complete
powers of-self-government and ab
solute freedom of dictation or con
trol from any party or group.
Famous Editor Named Zionist Ambassador
London (WNS—Palcor Agency)—
Dr. Julius Becker, at one time edi
tor of the Berlin Zeitung-am-Mittag
and of other newspapers issued by
the Ullstein firm, has been appoint
ed representative to the League of
Nations at Geneva of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine. Dr. Becker,
regarded as one of the best-in
formed journalists and political
writers in Europe, is at the present
time in Shanghai, where he has
been for the past two years. He
succeeds Dr. Victor Jacobson, the
Zionist Ambassador at Geneva, who
died several months ago, and whose
intimate friend he was. Before the
War, Dr. Becker was the editor of
the Judische Rundschau, organ of
the German Zionist Organization.
During the War he executed var
ious missions in Turkey designed
to safeguard the lives of Jews in
Palestine and other Turkish te~ri-
tories. A German Jew of fifty, he
is one of the veterans of the Zion
ist movement. For many years he
was the representative in Geneva
of the Ullstein Publishing House,
Germany’s biggest firm, which was
dissolved by the Hitler regime be
cause of the Jewish ownership.
Given one of the most important
positions in the Zionist movement
Dr. Becker will maintain relations
on behalf of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine with the Mandates Com
mission of the League and the In
ternational Labor Office.
Anti-Semitism Remains
Nazi Dogma, Wagnev,
Party Leader Warns
ogram was per-
by Adolf Wag-
;tei of the In-
Berlin (WNS)—Any doubt that
anti-Semitism is still a cardinal
point In the Nazi program was per
manently dissipated
ner, Bavarian minister
terior, when he told a mass meet
ing gathered to celebrate the 15th
anniversary of the Nazi party that
all of the twenty-five theses fc
ulated by Gottfried PedW,
of the party, were still party
ma, notwithstanding the fact
Feder has be:n rejnoved from
positions of influence,
ty-five theses include all of
party’s anti-Semitic pku
ing the Aryan law.