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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
VOL. XIII—NO. 3
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
actress refuses TO pose \Q nffn > R Measures Sweep Over
Rumania, Thousands are Directly
Affected by Professional Ban
Italy Shuts Doors,
Hitler Expected
LONDON (WNS) —All Jews
seeking to enter Italy are being
turned back at the frontier by
the Italian secret police as part
of the measures being taken in
connection with the forthcom
ing visit to Rome of Chancellor
Hitler, it was reported by the
Evening Standard in a Paris
dispatch. The report stated that
the Italian and German secret
police are not only scrutinizing
the passports of Jews seeking to
enter Italy with great care but
are also examining the docu
ments of all Italian Jews.
Irish Friends
Claudette Colbert, noted screen actress, refused to be photo
graphed with a floral wreath presented to her before sailing for
Europe on an Italian ship until a swastika flag attached to the wreath
was removed. When MLss Colbert was given the WTeath she noticed
that it was decorated with many flags, among them the swastika.
When the photographers tried to get her to pose with the floral
decoration she angrily refused until the swastika was removed. In
private life Miss Colbert is the wife of Dr. Joel Pressman, noted
Jewish physician, with whom she is pictured above.
London (WNS)—Reporting on a
recent interview he had with
Enmon de Valera in Dublin, Pro
fessor Selig Brodetsky, member of
the Jewish Agency Executive, said
that the president of the Irish Free
State manifested “deep under
standing both of the Jewish prob
lem and Jewish aims in Palestine."
Police Probe 48 U. S. Publishers Refuse
Arab Murder
Of Starkey
The cold-blooded murder by
Arab brigands in Palestine of John
Leslie Starkey, noted British ar
chaeologist whose joint backer is
Sir Charles Marston, well known
in Atlanta, is being investigated
by British police, according to a
WNS - Palcor Agency dispatch.
First news of Starkey’s death
reached Atlanta friends Monday,
with fears held for the fate of
Holbrook Van Dyke Bonney, a
native Atlantan, who is a member
of the Wellcome-Marston archaeo
logical expedition.
Acting swiftly in an effort to
round up the Arab brigands, Brit
ish police laid siege to an Arab
house in a village near Hebron,
and after a sharp encounter, which
was brought to an end only after
the police were believed to have
resorted to tear gas, three armed
Arabs were captured on suspicion
of having taken part in the murder
of Starkey. Acting on secret in
formation, a detachment of police
surrounded the house of the sus
pects and ordered them to give
themselves up. The brigands re
fused to surrender, replying to the
police command with a volley of
shots. When, after half an hour
of fighting, the battle showed signs
of continuing indeciseively, the po
lice are said to have hurled tear
gas bombs, forcing the beleagued
brigands to emerge from their ref
uge.
To Attend Book Congress
NEW YORK—Refusing to be a party to any action which
would enable the Nazi regime to make the German public
feel that the present German government is approved by the
_ r 7 outside world, 48 of the outstand-
Natton Names 5
In Annual Poll
Two
Christian Foes
Nazism Included
Of
NEW YORK (WNS)—Five pro
minent American Jews and two
Christian foes of Nazism are cited
on the tenth annual honor roll of
The Nation. Jews listed are Mor
ris L. Ernst, for his fight against
Mayor Hague of Jersey City; Ar
thur Garfield Hays, for his report
on the Ponce massacre in Porto
Rico; Judge Julian W. Mack, for
his decision in the Electric Bond
and Share case; Marc Blitzstein,
for his musical play, “The Cradle
Will Rock"; and Peter Blume, for
his anti-Fascist painting, “The
Eternal City." Dr. William E.
Dodd, retiring U. S. ambassador to
Germany, is honored for his protest
against sending an American re
presentative to the Nazi party con
gress, and Cardinal Mundelein of
Chicago is cited for his condemna
tion of Nazi persecution of the
church in Germany. Also listed is
the town council of Southbury,
Conn., for resisting the establish
ment of a Nazi camp.
JAPANESE PLEDGE PEACE TO
JEWISH COLONY IN MANCHUKUO
HARBIN, MANCHUKUO (WNS)
—Readiness of the Japanese au
thorities in Manchukuo to coope
rate with Jews commercially and
socially was expressed by General
Higuchi, commander-in-chief of
the Japanese forces in Manchukuo,
in an address before the first con
ference of Jewish communities
from Manchukuo, North China and
Japan. Emphasizing that the Jap
anese were the friends of the Jew
ish people and had no feelings of
race hatred, General Higuchi told
th conference that “while Man
chukuo is basically founded on the
ing American bonk publishers is
sued a joint statement announc
ing their refusal to attend this
year’s International Congress of
Book Publishers which is to be
held in Leipzig. Denouncing the
gagging of the book trade in Ger
many and the banning of the books
of celebrated authors, the pub
lishers declared that "participa
tion in a meeting in Germany, with
all the implications of such cooper
ation, would be a contradiction of
the very essence of our function as
publishers. Our trade is a Jiving
symbol of the ideal of a free press
and its corollaries, free speech and
free assemblage. We cannot, in
courtesy, give voice to our beliefs
at a meeting in Germany, nor can
we humiliate ourselves by going
there and keeping silent about
them.” The publishers expressed
the hope that “in the course of time
our ground for remaining away
from Leipzig in 1938 may prove the
basis for normal and fruitful co
operation.”
Signers of the statement includ
ed Modern Age Books, Bloch Pub
lishing Co., Book-of-t h e-M o n t h
Club, Harper & Brothers, Bobbs-
Merrill Co., University of North
Carolina Press, Covici-Friede, Inc.,
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., John Day
Co., Grossett & Dunlap, Inc., E. P.
Dutton &. Co., Farrar & Rinehart,
Inc., Greystone Press, Viking Press,
Inc., Harcourt, Brace & Co., Van
guard Press, Knight Publishers,
Alfred A. Knopf, Macaulay Co.,
Macmillan Co., Harvard University
Press, Julian Messner, Inc., Long-
cooperation of five people — Japa- j mans, Green & Co., W. W. Norton
nese, Chinese, Mongols, Koreans
and Russians — it will in the fu
ture gladly support loyal Jewish
people, enabling Jews to live in
peace and to establish peaceful
homes here." He voiced his pleas
ure at the resolution of loyalty
to Japan adopted by the confer
ence. The meeting was attended
by delegates from Mukden, Har
bin, Tientsin, Kobe, Dairen and
Osaka. General Higuchi’s assur
ances were regarded as highly im-
& Co., Penn Publishing Co., Ran
dom House, Simon & Schuster,
Stackpole Sons, Robert Speller
Publishing Corp., * Frederick A.
Stokes Co., Oxford University
Press, Yale University Press, and
Garrick & Evans, Inc.
The statement further declared:
“Works by Freud & Sinclair Lew
is; Einstein and Bergson, Masaryk
and Bertrand Russell; Professor
Beard, Thomas Mann, Remarque,
Zweig (to cite at random well-
STUNG REICH
DR. WILLIAM E. DODD
portant in view of the difficulties known writers of our time), have
recently experienced by Jews in < been banned or publicly burned
Manchukuo. , or both.”
German Envoy
Protests Dodd
Open Attack
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—
Hans Dieckhoff, German ambassa
dor to the United States, registered
an official protest with the State
Department against the “unheard
of insult” to a friendly nation con
tained in the address of Dr. Wil
liam E. Dodd at a testimonial din
ner in hiB honor, it was announced
by Secretary of State Hull. While
declining to reveal the passages in
the stinging address of the former
United States ambassador to Ger
many’s stinging speech that
aroused the ire of the Nazi govern
ment, Mr. Hull said that he merely
reminded his caller that there is
free speech in this country and
that Mr. Dodd, as a private citi
zen, was within his rights. At the
same time he indicated that Mr.
Dodd’s views did not represent
those of the United States Govern
ment. It was understood vhat
Dieckhoff took particular excep
tion to those parts of Dodd's speech
in which he charged Hitler with
having killed more personal oppo
nents in five years than King
Charles did in 20 years. This was
the third time that the German
embassy has protested anti-Nazi
utterances by Americans. The
State Department apologized last
year for Mayor La Guardia’s re
mark that Hitler ought to be in a
chamber of horrors because he is
a brown-shirted fanatic, but took
no action when Cardinal Munde
lein of Chicago called Hitler a
former Austrian paper-hanger.
■ BUCHAREST (WNS)—At least
250,000 of Roumania’s 900,000 Jews
are ulready directly affected by de
crees and administrative measures
principally aimed at Jews. Elimi
nation of Jews from the profes
sions, through decrees ovlsting doc
tors from government health in
surance boards, forbidding actors
in state subsidized theatres, the
dismissal of writers from newspa
pers and the attempt to disbar law
yers, deprives some 10,000 families
of their source of livelihood. The
establishment of government mo
nopolies for the sale of alcohol, to
bacco, salt, kerosene, oil and other
staples will eliminate another
10,000 families whose breadwin
ners are engaged in selling those
commodities. Contemplated mea
sures to eliminate all but pure-
blooded Rumanians from indus
trial and commercial employment
will affect another 10,000 families.
Envoy Cautions Goga
Bucharest (WNS)—C a b 1 e d
protests by Jewish organiza
tions in the United States again
st the anti-Semitic measures of
the Rumanian government are
“impudent” and their effect on
the cabinet are the opposite of
that intended. Premier Octa-
vian Goga told United States
Minister Franklin M. Gunther
who had informed the Ruman
ian leader thnt the United States
was watching the Jewish situ
ation in Rumania apprehen
sively. Mr. Gunther, who call
ed on Goga unofficially, explain
ed that "I observed that we
have a large body of law-abid
ing Jews in the United States
and that American public opin
ion would follow events here
with eager interest. I recalled
the reaction in America when
Germany took extreme mea
sures. It was my impression
that the Premier would pro
ceed cautiously.”
Add to 30,000 families (150,000
people) 20,000 who are fleeing
the villages of Bessarabia, Bukow-
ina and Moldavia in anticipation of
being removed from the land in ac
cordance with Premier Goga’s pro
clamation that Jews will not be
permitted to live on the land or in
villages, and you find that nearly
one third of Rumanian Jewry is
already affected by the program of
the government.
The Jews from the villages are
pouring into the larger towns
without waiting for their land to
be taken from them because the
peasants, who have already divid
ed Jewish-owned property, are
prepared to take possession the
moment the law is promulgated.
This mass exodus of impoverished
Jews is creating a serious problem
for the larger communities. Many
of them have set up free soup kit
chens but are in no position to pro
vide for the refugees over any long
period of time.
BRAZIL EXTENDS IMMIGRATION
LAW TO PERMIT LARGE ENTRY
RIO DE JANEIRO (WNS) —
Brazil's immigration law, which
by constitutional fiat restricts im
migration from all countries to 2
per cent of the nationals already
in Brazil, will be radically changed
to permit the entry of agricultural
workers, settlers and industrial
technicians from all countries ex
cept the Orient and to legalize the
status of reputable immigrants al
ready in the country, regardless of
their race or religion, even if they
entered illegally. The proposed
change is to be drafted by a special
commission set up to study the
question of immigration and to
recommend new legislation.
The new immigration policy is
a direct result of the announce
ment by the ministry of justice
that it has cancelled orders for
the deportation of 1,000 German
and Polish Jews who had entered
Brazil illegally since 1934. This
step was taken in order to dissi
pate the feeling abroad that the
authoritarian regime of President
Getulio Vargas is either Fascist or
Nazi. Ordered several weeks ago,
the deportation order has been
suspended for two months during
which time the special commission
will undertake an investigation of
the status of the immigrants and
prepare new immigration legisla
tion.