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The Southern Israelite
VOL. X—NO. 28
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935.
Price Five Cents
COHEN PROPOSES STRONGER COUNCIL
Atlanta’s Organizations Ready To Launch Intensive J N F Drive
Importance Of
Increased Jewish
Unity Is Stressed
\ddress Heard By Over
Five Hundred Delegates
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—En
largement of the powers and juris
diction of the Joint Consultative
Council, which includes representa
tives of the B’nai B’rith, American
Jewish Congress and American
Jewish Committee, so as to make it
tha authorized spokesman of Amer
ican Jewry in all matters affecting
Jews as Jews regardless of the dis
tinctions that ordinarily divide them
was demanded by Alfred M. Cohen,
international president of the B’nai
B’rith, in his presidential message to
the opening session of the four
teenth quinquennial convention of
the B’nai B’rith. More than five
hundred delegates heard Mr. Cohen
declare that although “It is idle to
expect that either (of these three
organizations) will yield its exist
ence in favor of another,” it “is
possible for them through represen
tation from their membership to
constitute a jointure that shall
speak and act for and in behalf of
all American Jewry in matters of
such general concern to the Jew
as may interest all Jews, regardless
of distinctions which ordinarily di
vide them.”
Mr. Cohen’s address urged the
importance of increased Jewish uni
ty and the need for constructive ac-
tom-te meet the menace of ecenowiw
discrimination against the Jews jn
America. After reiterating his op
position to a world Jewish congress
and pledging himself to continue his
efforts to unite the activities of
both the American Jewish Congress
and the American Jewish Commit
tee so far as their program for
American Jewry is concerned, Mr.
Cohen referred in great detail to
the mounting tide of economic dis
crimination against the Jew in this
country and recommended ^Jiat the
B’nai B’rith take the initiative in
bringing together all interested
Jewish agencies in combatting this
danger “in order to stem a tide
which threatens to overwhelm the
Jew economically.” He minced no
words in excoriating Jewish em
ployers who refuse to hire Jewish
employes.
Elsewhere in his presidential ad
dress Mr. Cohen favored continued
B’nai B’rith for the National Con-
•erenee of Jews and Christians be
cause “the politician and the po-
•iceman will not solve the Jewish
Problem but the preacher and the
■eacher may”; recommended official
^cognition for the women’s auxil-
lar y lodges of the B’nai B’rith;
^rophasized the urgency of expend-
the work of the Anti-Defama-
■on League; urged continued sup
port of B’nai B'rith’s social service
apartment for Jewish patients at
; ne -'layo Clinic. Mr. Cohen also re-
Pwted on the great strides made by
nai B’rith in the last five years,
pressing the fact that during all
? Past lessons in membership
• a u been recouped. He laid particu-
m Phasis °n the one hundred per
, e . nt ' ncrea se in membership of
: e Ph Zadek Aleph, the junior aux-
“ary; the extension of B’nai B’rith
■ 0 France, South America, Alge-
a ’ Mexico, and Hawaii and the
5 owth of the Hillel Foundations in
e colleges. Since the last conven-
j>on B nai B’rith expended $250,000
in * lco an< * a similar sum in car-
viH'- Wa - r or Phans, as well as pro-
«„! assistance to Jews in Greece
and Poland.
weans of obtaining accur-
;n “ rst -hand information regard-
ci tr , r • P r °blems facing Jewish stu-
v . ln American colleges, the con-
tior, r th T°“g h its Hillel Founda-
t-L,.; omm issi on , authorized the es-
o n 1 "’ hrn< r n t of a bureau of research
d na tional scale to undertake a
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URGES UNITY
ALFRED M. COHEN, Inter
national President of B’nai B’rith
in his address before the fourteenth
quinquennial convention held in
Washington, stressed the impor
tance of increased Jewish unity.
Expert Reveals
Falsity of Protocols
Berne, Switzerland (WNS)—The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion are
the work of the Czarist secret po
lice who had special reasons for
concocting those forgeries in order
to provide an excuse for persecution
of the Jews, Dr. C. A. Loosli, Swiss
expert, told the court which is
hearing the suit of the Swiss Fed
eration of Jewish Communities
against Swiss Nazis who circulated
the Protocols. Loosli, who is the
expert assigned by the court, pre
sented his findings after Col. Ul
rich Fleischhauer, Nazi expert, had
concluded three days of testimony
in the course of which his asser
tions became so ludicrous and idi
otic that even the judges joined
with the spectators in laughter. Dr.
Loosli categorically denied that
Zionist leaders ever had revolu
tionary or political ambitions in
the lands where they lived, and em
phatically contradicted Fleisch-
hauer’s allegation that the Proto
cols were grafted at the first Zion
ist Congress in Basle. Supporting
the statement made by Dr. Baum-
garten, Jewish expert, that the
Protocols were plagiarized from the
writings of Maurice Joly, a French
lawyer, Dr. Loosli branded as false
and laughable the legend of the
anti-Semites that the Protocols
were confiscated by the Czarist po
lice in the home of a Russian Jew,
as well as other anti-Semitic ver
sions of the Jewish origin of the
Protocols. Dr. Loosli also showed
that after Czarist secret police had
prepared the Protocols, they were
polishel up by Sergei Nilus, anti-
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Dr. Loeb Wins Memorial
Medal of American
College of Physicians
Serious Pogrom Is
Narrowly Averted
Berlin (WNS) — Only the re
straint and self-discipline of the
Jews of Munich prevented what
was a deliberate attempt by the
fol'owers of Julius Streicher, Nazi
overlord of Franconia, to precipi
tate a pogrom when a band of
drunken Nazi students, uniformed
brown shirts and secret police at
tempted to goad the six hundred
attendants at a meeting celebrating
the tenth anniversary of the He
brew University into an overt act.
While the Jews were listening to a
lecture on the Hebrew University,
the Nazi hooligans defaced the out
side of the building with insulting
signs and pictures. As the Jews,
including many women and chil
dren. began leaving the hall, the
drunken students and storm troop
ers greeted them with abusive and
vile remarks. The Jews refused to
fall into the trap and dispersed
quietly. Tw*> Jews who tried to re
monstrate with the students and
who complained to the police were
arrested and taken to police head
quarters. Later they were released.
As a result of the increasing tern
po the anti-Semitic campaign and
the announcement that the Jews
will shortly be deprived of their
citizenship, Jewish leaders here are
trying to obtain from Nazi official
dom an official statement of the ex
act position of German Jewry. The
Juedische Rundschau, Zionist or
gan, published an editorial asking
the government what will be the
official status of the Jews after
the new citizenship law is decreed.
The Rundschau said that “only a
few hundred thousand Jews still
live inside the boundaries of the
Reich. Through emigration the
number is steadily diminishing. We
Jews know that, according to the
principles dominating present-day
Germany, we have no control over
the place we shall occupy in the
Nation. We believe, however, that
in so regulating matters as to ex
clude us from all public office and
service, it is in the interests of the
nation to provide for our presence
in some positive fashion.”
Philadelphia (WNS)—The covet
ed John Philips Memorial Medal,
awarded annually by the American
College of Physicians to some out
standing physician in the field °*
medicine, was presented to Dr. Leo
Loeb, professor of pathology at
Washington University, St. Louis,
at the close of the organization s
annual convention. Dr. Loeb, who
is a former president of the Amer
ican Association of Pathologists and
Bacteriologists and of the Soaety
for Cancer Research, delivered the
convocation oration, speaking on
“The Thyroid-stimulating Hormone
of the Anterior Pituitary Gland.
Holy Land to Have
First Radio Station
Jerusalem (WNS—Palcor Agen
cy)—The ancient Biblical phrase
that “out of Zion will come forth
the Law” achieved twentieth-cen
tury reality when the Palestine
Government began construction of
the Holy Land’s first public radio
station near Jerusalem. Actual
building operations follow years of
agitation for such a project on the
part of all elements of the popula
tion. At the present time there is
a military wireless station at Sara-
fend, the garrison for His Majesty’s
aerial forces in Palestine. A prob
lem that does not face any other
broadcasting station in the world
has been solved in Palestine. An
nouncers as well as programs will
use Arabic, English and Hebrew,
the three official tongues of the
country. The Palestine Government
is the owner of the station.
INSULTING REMARKS BY
WIFE AGAINST HITLER
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE
Berlin (WNS)—“Insulting re
marks” about Hitler are now le
gal grounds for divorce in Ger
many, the German supreme court
at Leipzig ruled in granting a
husband’s petition for divorce on
the plea that his spouse indulg
ed in remarks about Der Fueh
rer which the husband regardel
as insulting.
Goering Says Reich Will
Buy Plane Inventions
Even From Jews
Berlin (WNS) — “Inventions do
not have grandmothers whose race
must be probed,” General Hormann
Wilhelm Goering, Nazi air minister,
told newspapermen in announceing
that Germany is guying air defense
inventions wherever it can obtain
them, “whether the man be heath
en, Christian or Jew.”
Scheme to Smash
Boycott Revealed
Paris (WNS) — A sensational
scheme designed to break the anti-
Nazi boycott in the United States
has been concocted by a mysterious
American journalist, H. Philip
Morgan, who, in collaboration with
an unknown non-Aryan German
trade journalist, has drafted a
memorandum to Hitler proposing
that the widespread animosity
against Germany in the United
States resulting from Nazi perse
cution of the Jews be dissipated by
a personal transatlantic telephone
call from Hitler to President Roose
velt, in which Der Feuhrer would
promise that any further persecu
tion of the Jews wUl.be forbidden
in Germany forthwith.' Details of
this curious proposal were revealed
in the Pariser Tageblatt in a re
port from its Berlin correspondent,
who not only has a copy of the
memorandum, but who says that it
is being given serious consideration
in high Nazi circles.
#This proposed pledge by Hitler,
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Groups Spread Hatred
Of Jews In South
African Provinces
Joh annesburg (WNS) — Reports
from the provincial centers of the
Union of South Africa indicate that
anti-Jewish agitation is growing
under a variety of disguises. In
Capetown the movement is being
sponsored by the Gentile Protection
League, headed by J. H. H. de
Waal, son of an ex-speaker of the
Union Parliament. De Waal has
published a book called “My Awak
ening” which is in the best tradi
tion of Nazi anti-Semitic literature.
One of the illustrations shows Jews
tapping and draining the blood of
Christian children. General Jan
Christian Smuts, former premier
and now minister of justice, is con
sidering what action should be tak
en against this inflammatory vol
ume. In Western Transvaal the
South African National Party is
holding large and regular meetings
in the towns and villages at which
anti-Semitic speeches are made. The
economic depression in this area is
being utilized to stir up the farm
ers against the Jews. A third anti-
Semitic organization is the South
African National Democratic Move
ment which is active in Eastern
Transvaal. This group publishes p
paper called “Ons Reg” or “Our
Right” which contains repeated at
tacks on the Jewish population.
Jewish leaders here are trying to
get the local authorities to prohibit
the meetings of these groups on the
ground that they are a menace to
public order.
Representaives to
Gather At J.P.C.
For Fund Drive
Mass Meeting to Be Held
on May 22
Representatives from every or
ganization in Atlanta and officials
of the Jewish National Fund will
gather at the Jewish Progressive
Club Monday evening, May 13, at
8 o’clock to work out the final plans
for the fund drive for which At
lanta pledged to raise $4,000 be
tween May 21st and June 9th, and
at the same time members on the
various working committees that
will form the “flying squadron” will
be named.
The Atlanta committee, recently
named by a joint meeting of the
city’s organizations and Simon J.
Levin, New York City, field repre
sentative of the Jewish National
Fund, is headed by Ralph Willner
and assisted by M. Rich. Other of
ficers are Dr. Nathan Blass, A.
Cenker, and Mrs. 'Sam E. Levy,
Vice-Presidents, Harry M. Wen-
grow, Treasurer, Edward R. Vajda,
Secretary. Joe Dorfan is chairman
of the Organization and Speakers
Committee, while Dave N. Meyers
is Chairman of the Special Gifts
division. David S. Block heads the
Men’s Working Committee and the
head of the women’s working Com
mittee will be announced later.
Honorary Chairmen are Rabbis
Harry H. Epstein, Joseph Cohen
and. .Tobias Geffen. The Executive
Committee is made up of M. Nie-
berg, David S. Block, F. Taffel, Da
vis Ajouelo, and L. Isaacson.
The campaign to be inaugurated
in Atlanta will be one of many to
be started in other cities over the
country to raise $500,000 for the
purpose of redeeming more of the
land in Palestine. Due to the Jewish
homeland being a haven for refu
gees more land is needed for the
greatly increased numbers and the
goal of the Jewish National Fund
by raising this money is to alle
viate the-acute land shortage.
In emphasizing the importance of
a successful drive here, Major
Ralph Willner, chairman of the Lo
cal Committee, pointed out that
thousands of dunams of land have
already been acquired by the Fund.
“However,”' Mr. Willner quoted,
“due to the ever increasing num
bers, more land must be purchased
to enable the newcomers to toil on
the land and guarantee them an un
interrupted Jewish homeland.”
Although the exact program has
not been outlined at this date, a
huge mass meeting is scheduled to
be held on May 22nd. After two
weeks of a complete drive to raise
the set quota, a banquet in celebra
tion of the success of the drive is
to be held on June 9th, at which
time Morris Rothenberg of New
York City, President of the Zionist
Order of America, the organization
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Doctors Honored For •
New Medical Discoveries
Philadelphia (WNS)—Importar
new discoveries in the treatment <
asthma and in the diagnosis c
cancer were reported to the 19t
annual session of the American Co
lege of Physicians by Dr. Alvan 1
Barach of the Columbia-Presbyti
rian Medical Center in New Yor
and Dr. Benjamin Gruskin of th
medical school of Temple Univei
sity, Philadelphia, respectively. D;
Barach’s contribution to medics
science was the discovery that he!
ium benefits asthma sufferers whe
all other remedies have failed. Di
Gruskin’s discovery was the devel
opment of the new substances whic
reveal the existence of cancer in it
earliest stages long before the di
sease can be detected by X-rays o
any other methods.