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For
Southern
Jewry
The Southern Israelite
VOL. XI—NO. 40
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1936
Support Urged
For Palestine
Agency Issues Call For Rally
of World Jewry To Safe
guard Future
Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agency)
__The entire Jewish people is called
u p on to safeguard the gains in the
Jewish Homeland through the pro
vision of a $1,500,000 defense, and
security fund in a statement issued
by the Jewish Agency for Pales
tine or. the occasion of the close of
the sixth month of violence which
marks the Arab revolt against the
Jewish National Home policy of
the British government. The prob
lem is one that cannot be borne by
the Jews of Palestine alone, but
must be shared by the Jewish peo
ple everywhere, it is declared in the
statement, which reads partly as
follows:
“The Arab strike, stained with
the innocent blood of Jews, Arabs
and British, has not deterred the
development of the Jewish econ
omy, nor has it halted the Jewish
creative activity. The insecurity of
the hi ghways has not stayed Jew
ish transport nor severed communi
cations between town and village.
“Our people’s pioneers , on the
land have not confined their efforts
to the protection of existing
achievements or the continuance of
previous activity. During the very
height of the disturbances, when
the sword of destruction still was
brandished over their heads and the
hopes of the Jewish people were
threatened by the gravest danger,
the Yishub won new permanent
footings, promising expansion, and
thrust its roots more firmly into
the soil. The world’s first Jewish
city carved a way to the sea and
a Jewish port is beginning on the
Tel Aviv shore. Jewish labor has
been consolidated in the Jewish vil
lages and thousands of new Jew
ish workers have been absorbed in
the Jewish settlements. Jewish
agriculture has won new markets
and the labor settlements have ad
mitted hundreds of new pioneers.
Building’s basic industry, quarry
ing, has absorbed added Jewish la
bor.
“For six months the Yishub
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Ask Mayor Shaw
For Explanation
Hollywood League Invites Los
Angeles Pro-Nazi Mayor
To Meeting
PRICE FIVE CENTS
lauds games
REICH BANS ALL NON-
ARYAN LEQAL PRACTICE
f
Avery Brundage
Olympic Head
Bares Finances
Six Firms Drop
German Goods
Anti-Nazi League Succeeds in
Converting Large Firms
To Boycott
Refuses To Dismiss
Edmondson Case
Program To Dejudaize Legal
And Economic Sciences
Made Known
German-Americans, Pro-Nazis
Made U. S. Entry Possible,
Confesses Brundage
New York (WNS)—What was
tantamount to an admission that
the American team that went to
the Berlin Olympic Games over the
protest of large sections of Amer
ican public opinion was financed in
considerable measure by funds ob
tained from pro-Nazi and German-
American sources was made by
Avery Brundage, chairman of the
American Olympic Committee and
leader of the fight for American
participation in the, Berlin games,
in a pro-Nazi speech at the Ger
man Day celebration in Madison
Square Garden here. Cheered by
20,000 gathered under the auspices
of the German-American Bund, suc
cessor of the Friends of the New
Germany, Mr. Brundage said that
“thanks to the support of you peo
ple of German descent in America
we were able to get our Olympic
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New York.—As a result of the
activities of the Research Depart
ment of the Non-Sectarian Anti-
Nazi League six large firms have
recently informed the League that
they no longer handle German mer
chandise and thus petitioned to
have their names removed from the
regular monthly listing appearing
in the Economic Bulletin of those
firms still engaged in the distribu
tion of products imported from
Germany. Four of these firms are
manufacturers and importers of
gloves while the other two are en
gaged in the coal and coke busi
ness.
The four glove firms who have
thus recently been converted to the
cause of the anti-Nazi boycott are:
Max Mayer & Co., 2 Park Avenue;
Manne and Weill, 470 Fourth Ave.;
Julius Kayser & Co., 500 Fifth
Ave., and Alfred Friedman Co., 470
Fourth Avenue. The coal firms
that have complied with the Lea
gue’s request not to handle Ger
man merchandise are the Moun
tain Valley Fuel Corp., 24 State
Street, and the Newton Creek Coal
and Coke Co., 230 Morgan Ave.,
Brooklyn.
The letter from Manne and Weill,
importers of gloves bearing the
trade name, “Maidwell,” states that
“we are not handling German
gloves at the present time and have
not received or placed any orders
therefor since September, 1935.”
The Mountain Valley Fuel Corp.
has informed the League that since
May 1st they discontinued all con
nections with the yard at 37 Com-
I mercial Street, Brooklyn,” which
’had been handling German coal |
New York (WNS)—The last le
gal technicality standing in the
way of the trial of Robert Edward
Edmondson, anti-Semitic pamphle
teer, on charges of libeling the
Jewish religion, Secretary of Labor
Perkins and Dean Virginia Gilder-
sleeve of Barnard College was
brushed aside by General Sessions
Judge Collins when he denied a
motion for an inspection of the
minutes of the grand jury which in
dieted Edmondson
Sephardic Heads
Here for Union
Forging a new link in the move
ment to create a union of Sephardic
Jewish communities in the United
States, Albert D. Levy and Rabbi
Maier Elias, of New York, address
ed a large gathering here at Con
gregation Or Ve Sholom Tuesday
evening.
The proposed union, according to
Mr. Levy, who is editor of “La
Vara,” the only Spanish-Hebrew
paper in the United States, and
author of “An Episode in the In
quisition,” is designed to preserve
Sephardic Jewish culture. Among
the phases of Sephardic Jewish life
which it will serve arc social wel
fare, the establishment of Talmud
Torahs and other educational proj
ects, and good-will relationship be
tween groups.
Mr. Levy, a soft-spoken, cultured
man, revealed that the union would
merge the 19 mutual organizations
that now exist, in addition to Tal
mud Torahs, into one, codified
group. Atlanta and Montgomery,
Ala., have the largest Sephardic
Jewish populations in the South.
“La Vara,” the paper which Mr.
Levy edits, is printed in Hebrew
characters to form archaic Spanish
words, with one page printed in
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Berlin (WNS) — Completion of
the Nazi program of anti-Jewish
racial legislation and the beginning
of a new intensive effort to cleanse
the legal and economic sciences
from Jewish sciences was announc
ed to the convention of university
professors of the National Social
ist Jurists’ Association by Dr. Hans
Frank, Nazi minister of justice.
Outlining an eight-point program
for eliminating the remaining Jew
ish judges and lawyers and for re
moving all legal works by Jews,
Frank said the campaign was in
tended to make it impossible for
Jews to have an opportunity to in
terpret or teach German law.
The eight points enunciated by
Frank were: 1. It must be impossi
ble in the future for any Jew to
act in behalf of German law; 2.
German justice must be reserved
for such Germans as are Aryans in
the sense of the Nuremberg laws;
3. No publisher must print new edi
tions of German lawbooks by Jew
ish authors; 4. Works of Jewish
authors must be removed from
public and educational libraries; 5.
All such books must be transfer
red to the institutes which deal
with “exposing the evil influence
of Jews and the Jewish nation”; 6.
German jurists must not quote
Jewish authors, except in cases
when such quotations are indis-
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D
eath Writes Finis to Diplomatic Career of
Jesse Isidor Stratis, Scion of Famous Family
Los Angeles (WNS) — Mayor
Frank Shaw of Los Angeles, who
attended and addressed a recent
meeting of Nazi sympathizers at
Hindenburg Park here, at which
the Olympic track coach, Dean
Cromwell of the University of
Southern California, made his
“misinterpreted” remarks about
Hitler and the Jews, has been in
vited by the Hollywood League
against Nazism to attend its next
meeting and to explain his pres-
cnee at a Nazi meeting at which
huge swastikas were very much in
evidence. In a letter to Mayor
Shaw the League said that his
presence at the meeting, “whose
outcome gave to the world an im
pression that the purport of the
meeting was to inflame the passion
of one section of the community
against another, solely on racial
and religious grounds,” made it in
cumbent on him to explain.
Published reports of the last
meeting of the League revealed
that charges were made that Mrs.
Mabel Socha, a leading Nazi sym
pathizer and president of the Lit>
B jard of Park Commissioners, had
advanced city funds to the German-
Americans to aid them in the pur
chase of what is now called Hin-
denburg Park when they were un
able to raise sufficient money
themselves two years ago. Despi e
the fact that city money went into
the purchase, it was charged yiai
the park is relegated to the exclus-
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Bv Bernard Postal
New York. —The passing of
Jesse Isidor Straus ends another
chapter in the saga of the Straus
family in America. Virtually every
member of this family, which, has
given so many distinguished names
to America and to American Jewry,
has made history. The founder of
the family, Lazarus Straus, came
to this country in the 1840 s with
the vanguard of German refugees
from the reaction to the reform
movement. Lazarus was th e father
of Isidor, Nathan and Oscar Straus,
all of whom were intimately /Veri
fied with American and Jewish life
for two generations. Nathan was
one of the greatest philanthropists
of all time. Oscar was an eminent
figure in public affairs and the
>» * t r* 0 d f r;
Cabinet. Isidor, father of Jesse
wls an outstanding merehant and
communal leader. Bu. Jesse s.dor
Straus, who always “J**
ing his name written out in full as
a tribute to his father, who went
r-'erthe^.'idTeUta.t.
of’his fammif uncles an^his^faAer.
public sen an , interests,
munal fig u « of broa(i w l872 ,
Born , wasidentified
Straus’ entire career wa=>
with the great metropolis. He was
educated at Sachs Preparatory
School, which also gave to New
York Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
and at Harvard, from which he was
graduated in 1893. His first job
was as a clerk with the Hanover
National Bank, but he soon turned
to commerce, becoming a salesman
in Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn de
partment store. His grandfather,
Lazarus, was one of the owners of
that firm and also of R. H. Macy &
Company. When he was 24 he
joined R. H. Macy & Co. and learn
ed the business from the ground up
under the tutelage of his father.
In 1912, when Isidor Straus was
drowned on the Titanic s maiden
voyage, Jesse Straus succeeded him
as president of the establishment
which was to become under his di
rection the world’s largest depart
ment store. Endowed with a flair
for unique and successful merchan
dising methods, Straus was credit
ed with the unprecedented experi
ments which made R. H- Macy a
household name. Together with his
brothers, Herbert, who died three
years ago, and Percy, Jesse Straus
expanded the business until in 1929
its gross annual sales hit the $100,-
000,000 mark. Not content merely
with making R. H. Macy an inter
national landmark, Straus labored
Fascist Parade
Stirs England
Parliament and Cabinet Move
Measures To End Fascist
Violence
long to raise the standards of re
tail business in the United States.
He was widely recognized as an ex
pert on merchandising problems
and among department store execu
tives his ideas and opinions were
eagerly sought. He served a term
as president of the National Dry
Goods Association in 1922 and
through this position became one of
the best-known business men in the
country.
He was never active in public life
until 1931. Prior to that he devot
ed himself almost exclusively to his
business and to philanthropy. He
was a generous patron of Harvard,
having contributed $300,000 to a
dormitory named for his father and
also to the Harvard Business
School. For many years he was
an overseer of Harvard College, one
of the four Jews to have held this
office. He also gave large sums to
New York University and to var
ious Jewish religious and charitable
institutions.
It was in 1932 that he became a
real factor in politics as organizer
and president of the Roosevelt
Business and Professional League,
an organization which rallied busi
ness men to the support of Roose
velt’s presidential candidacy.
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London (WNS)—-Deeply stirred
by the narrow avoidance of what
would have been England’s blood
iest riot had not a huge mass dem
onstration of Sir Oswald Mosley’s
Fascist blackshirt legions through
the crowded Jewish districts of
London’s East End been prohibited
by the police at the last moment,
British public and official opinion
are looking to Parliament and the
Cabinet to take immediate meas
ures to put an end to Fascist vi
olence and intimidation. Although
the parade was called off, several
hundred persons were injured,
many seriously, and about 80 ar
rested when a militant throng of
100,000 anti-Fascists jammed every
street in the East End, prepared to
block the Fascists' march if the
police permitted it.
Warned for weeks of impending
trouble, the Commissioner of Police
and the Home Office had ignored
the pleas of the mayors of the five
East End boroughs to ban the dem
onstration, which was to have pass
ed through Whitechapel, Stepney
and Aldgate, all heavily populated
Jewish areaB. A warning by George
Lansbury, Labor leader, a petition
signed by 100,000 citizens and the
pleas of Jewish organizations also
went unheeded. The government,
however, canceled all police leaves
and surrounded the area with 6,000
bobbies.
Violence appeared unavoidable
when the assembled Fascists found
their route of march blocked by
anti-Fascists. Long before the time
set for the parade the anti-Fascists
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“The Message of Straus”
An Editorial
ON PAGE 6 OF THIS ISSUE