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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
VOL. XIII—NO. 5
ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FASCIST REVOLT
IN MEXICO DENIED
HEAD NATION WIDE DRIVE
Governor and rabbi pose together at a meeting of the Plan
and Scope Committer of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committer in St. I/onis. Governor Henry Horner, of Illinois (left),
was elected an honorary chairman of the campaign for 1938, and
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, of New York (right), was elected national
chairman. Tyranny abroad wsu; denounced by Governor Horner
in a speech at the meeting.
LEAGUE REPORT
ON RUMANIA
READY IN MAY
Geneva (WNS)—A committee of
three, comprising the Persian
president of the Council and re
presentatives of England and
France, has been named by the
League of Nations Council to study
Jewish petitions protesting Ru
mania’s violation of the 1919 mi
norities treaty through its nnti-
Jewish program. This committee
will examine the petitions im
mediately in order to give Rumania
an opportunity to comment on them
before the committee reports. It
is expected the report will be
ready before the May meeting of
the Council.
332 REFUGEE
YOUTHS LEAVING
FOR PALESTINE
NEW YORK—H a d a s s a h, the
Women’s Zionist Organization of
America, announced today that
322 Jewish children will leave
Germany and Poland for Palestine
in groups of approximately 60 from
now until March 30 under the aus
pices of the Youth Aliyah (immi
gration) movement, of which Ha-
dassah is the sole American agency.
The youth immigration project is
directed by Miss Henrietta Szold,
formerly of Baltimore, founder of
Hadassah.
Special certificates have been is
sued by the Palestine Government
for the admission of the 322 child
ren. These settlers will bring the
total of Youth Aliyah boys and
girls in Palestine to more than
2.000. The children, all between
the ages of 15 and 17 when they
embark for Palestine, are placed in
thirty-five cooperative agricultu
ral colonies and three trade centers
in that country.
It is also announced that Hadas
sah has raised $268,000 in two
years for the transfer and educa
tion of the children, and it expects
this year to raise an additional
$100,000. Of the sum collected for
the project, Eddie Cantor, the actor,
*ki\ nnn
In Palestine the children receive
two. and in some instances, three
years of training in academic and
vocational work. Eight hundred
boys and girls have already been
graduated from the course.
Stuermer Ban Lifted,
Other Papers In Doubt
BERLIN (WNS)—Huge red posters on all Berlin bill
boards appealing to Germans to “fight with Julius Streicher
against Jewish mass polluters” and the reappearance of Der
Stuermer served notice on the
world that the German govern
ment fully approves of Streicher’s
campaign. The seven-day ban on
the paper and the suppression of
two of its issues had given rise to
reports that it was to be banned
indefinitely. The suppression, it
now appears, was due only to
Streicher’s attack on the Exchange
Authority. As punishment two
of his associates were removed
from the staff and he himself was
advised to become publisher in
stead of editor. Under the new
arrangement the Stuermer reap
peared in a special edition which
demands the death sentence for
race pollution. The paper boast
ed that Hitler supports Streicher’s
policy.
Berlin (WNS)—The Juedische
Rundschau, most important Jewish
paper in Germany, has been for
bidden to publish by the ministry
of propaganda. No reason was
given for the ban.
London (WNS)—A tacit admis
sion that the Fascist movement in
England has suffered serious re
verses was made in “The Black
shirt,” organ of Sir Oswald Mos
ley’s British Union of Fascists,
when it announced that it would
henceforth appear as a monthly in
stead of a weekly. The announce
ment appealed for financial sup
port “of the greatest propaganda
campaign in the political history
of Britain,” and declared that “the
propaganda drive necessarily
means reorganization and curtail
ment in other directions, implying
certain sacrifices, but with the end
of such great importance, the sac
rifices will be made with readiness
and good will.”
Radio Priest
Answers Rabbi
NEW YORK (WNS)—“In our
struggle for social justice good
Jews and good Christians must
stand together refusing to protect,
much less applaud, persons whose
policies have blackened civiliza
tion," Father Charles E. Coughlin,
Detroit radio priest, declared in
a letter to Rabbi Abraham L. Fein-
berg of Mt. Neboah Temple who
had called on him to answer “a
thundering ‘No’ once for all to the
charge of anti-Semitism.” Re
plying to Rabbi Feinberg’s sermon
in which he said “Father Coughlin
cannot become a force for decency
if he exposes himself again to the
suspicion of anti-Semitism,” the
radio priest took exception to the
word “again,” saying it “is rather
provocative because I do not know
of the previous occasion which the
word implies. It is true that some
questionable Jewish papers and
Gentile papers favoring Commu
nism have levelled that charge
against me. The better class of
both Jews and Gentiles was too
intelligent to be deceived by the
so-called Communistic propagan
da.”
RABBIS VOICE OPINIONS
ON NEW WORLD PROBLEMS
NEW YORK (WNS)—“The courage and idealism of lib
eral forces in Jersey City, and in particular the progressive i NO POGROMS, KING
leadership, both Christian and Jewish, which have stood guard CAROL PROMISES
the Bill of Rights and not ’
over
permitted false charges of ‘Com
munism’ and ‘irreligion’ to becloud
the issue,” is applauded by the so
cial justice commission of the Rab
binical Assembly representing
the Conservative rabbinate, in its
nomic sanctions or boycott; favors
immediate passage of the Federal
anti-lynching law and ratification
of the child labor amendment; urg
es renewed peace efforts between
the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O.;
calls upon the conscience of the
semi-annual statement, on social; American people and the govern-
and economic conditions and in- I ment to voice its dissaproval of
temational affairs. The statement Rumanian anti-Semitism in unmis-
is emphatic in speaking out on
social and economic conditions and
international affairs.
The statement condemns Japa
nese aggression in China, opposes
active participation by America in
Bucharest (WNS)—There will
be no pogroms in Rumania regard
less of what the government de
cides to do about the Jewish prob
lem, King Carol declared in a
statement to American correspond
ents. “We have a Jewish prob
lem and we are wrestling with it,”
he said, but “how ultimately the
Reich Agents Furnishing Arms
To Army of 100,000, O’Connell Says
LOS ANGELES (WNS)—A Fascist revolt in Mexico with
in 60 days was predicted by Representative Jerry J, O’Connell
of Montana in an interview here in which he charged that
Nazi agents were furnishing arms
and munitions to fascist bands. Cit
ing information that “has come to
the liberal bloc of Congress Of
which 1 am a member,” Mr. O’Con
nell said "we have proof that Ger
many is supplying arms and am
munition to an army of 100,000
men now forming in the Guadalupe
hills of Mexico under General Sa-
turnino Cedillo. The gravity of the
Nazi and fascist movement in
North and South America cannot
be too greatly emphasized. I am
convinced Mexico will undergo a
fascist revolt in 60 days. A Nazi
Mexico would be a base for opera
tions against the United States by
Germany, Italy and Japan."
NEW YORK—Terming the re
ported clash m North Mexico, near
Brownsville, Texas, as a "publicity
stunt” conceived by the waning
Gold Shirts, Frank L. Kluckhom
in a special dispatch to the New
York Times, declared that Mexico-
City was amazed to learn that
“what was actually a sporadic
clash had been termed a revolt and
had been taken seriously in the-
United States.” " ‘ *
It is generally accepted in Mexi
co, the New York Times report
stated, that the Gold Shirts have-
no power and are moving toward
a total eclipse. The prediction by
Representative Jerry J. O’Connell
that a Fascist revolt was imminent
in Mexico, and repeated “so-called
inside information” by columnists,
received wide publicity in Mexi
co. The abortive raid of the Gold
Shirts took on wide significance
following the rumors of an upris
ing. Mexican papers devoted only
a few buried paragraphs to the
“revolt.”
“Whatever Fascist danger there
1 correspondent Kluckhom wir-
“exists within the regime and
not without, and the only possible
trouble—which does not appear at
the present on the horizon—is a
falling out between politicians of
the same school.”
Mexico City (WNS)—Twenty-
one men were reported killed in a
clash between police, troops and
agrarian reservists and armed
bands of the anti-Semitic Gold
Shirts at various points in the state
of Tamaulipas. A pitched battle
took place at Ramirez, 20 miles
from the American border. The
uprising came shortly after ru
mors of plans for a Fascist putsch.
The war department is not tak
ing seriously the reports that twen
ty-nine men were called in clash
es near Matamoros in Northeast,
Mexico.
IN FATHER’S STEPS
“A chip off the old block” In
handsome Edward M. M. War
burg, rod of the late Felix M.
Warburg, who has assumed
leadership of the 1938 Greater
New York Campaign of the
J. D. C.
Boycott Rally
Stirs New York
NEW YORK (WNS)—Intensifi
cation of the anti-Nazi boycott and
a united front against dictatorship
and for democracy were the key
notes of all the speakers who ad
dressed an overflow rally at Car
negie Hall sponsored by the Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League as a
protest against five years of the
Hitler terror in Germany. More
than 3500 people jammed Carnegie
Hall and as many were turned
away. A slight disturbance was
created outside when Nazi sympa
thizers attacked an anti-Nazi pick
et but he was rescued by the police.
Inside there was an uproar for a
time when Representative Hamil
ton Fish found himself booed by a
group of Communist sympathizers
after he had included Communists
in his denunciation of Fascists and
Nazis. Other speakers were for
mer ambassador William E. Dodd,
Professor Franz Boas, Ludwig
Renn, Isidore Gennett, Jeremiah
T. Mahoney, Heinz Leipmann,
Ernest L. Meyer, Representative
Vita Marcantonio, and Dr. William
E. Taylor, dean of the Howard
University Law School.
takable terms; and extols the he
roic self-restraint of the Jewish
community in Palestine and urges ' problem is to be met is not alto-
further efforts to bring Jews and ; gether clear, but the first and im-
Arabs together for a discussion of . . _ . . ,
„ a program “whereby both peoples P° mt of our P° llc y Wl11
the conflict, either independently may live in Palestine without domi- ^ that there shall be no violence
or through collective action, eco- nation and without strife.” I to Jews. Of that we are certain.”
TWENTY-EIGHT ATLANTANS
SELECTED FOR “WHO’S WHO”
Twenty-eight Atlantans, in the field of religion, art, pub
lishing, social service, science and education, are named in
the third edition (1938-39) of “Who’s Who in American Jew
ry,” released this month by the
National N-ws Association, Inc.
The compilation, which contains
36,000 names, is the work of years
of research.
Atlanta leaders selected are H.
A. Alexander, lawyer; Julian V.
Boehm, insurance; Dr. Maurice L.
B. Clarke, physician; Dr. M. B.
Copeloff. physician; Max M. Cuba,
accountant and lawyer; Rabbi
Harry H. Epstein; A. L. Feldman,
manufacturer: H. B. Friedman,
associate professor; Leonard Haas,
lawyer; Harold Hirsch, lawyer;
Edward M. Kahn, social work; Dr.
Samuel Kahn, psychiatrist; Moise
Nathaniel Kaplan; Ferd M. Kauf
man, manufacturer; Rhoda Kauf
man, social work; Rabbi David;
Marx; Samuel A. Massell, lawyer;
Armand May, executive; Aaron A.
Meyer, lawyer; Eugene Oberdor-
fer, executive; Ralph Rosenbaum,,
merchant; M. Stephen Schtffer,
publisher; Maurice Siegler, assis
tant professor; Clara Rosenfeld
Sommer field; Dr. Herbert Louis
Treusch, physician; J. B. Wolfe,
insurance, and Dr. Joseph Yam-
polsky, pediatrician. The list also
includes the late Dr. J. R. Som-
merfield, who died while the vol-r
ume was in preparation.