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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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VOL. XIII—NO. 45
A1LANTA ’ GA ” FRIDA Y, NOVEMBER 4, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
20,000 FACE DEPORTATION
J.D.C. ISSUES URGENT APPEAL
FOR IMMEDIATE CONTRIBUTIONS
TO HELP LATEST NAZI VICTIMS
“The mass deportation of Polish Jews from Germany
has exhausted every resource of the Joint Distribution Com
mittee. Facing a situation which is unparalleled even in the
recent history of Europe, the committee finds itself practi
cally helpless, because of the utter lack of funds.”
This statement was made by
WHERE'S MY FAMILY?
This dramatic picture shows the
jippine fear and anxiety in the
arcs of those hundreds of unfor-
unate Jews, Polish citizens, who
lurinn the last week were forcibly
jpctod from their homes and left
stranded along the Polish border.
Torn from their beds by the
agents of the Nazi police, most of
the men lost their families. Nego
tiations pending now between War
saw and Berlin will settle their
fate. In the meantime these vic
tims of Nazi persecution are fac
ing starvation in the small towns
and villages along the Polish bor
der, where they have been dump
ed by the German police.
Palestine Quota
Stays Unchanged
Jerusalem, Palestine—The Pal-
tine Government announced that
Jewish immigration into Palestine
for the six-month period beginning
Oct. 1 will be continued on the
same basis as to date, thus con
tinuing the “political high level”
but declining to halt Jewish immi
gration.
The immigration schedule pro
vides admission of 2,000 capitalists,
1,000 workers and permits for 800
dependents other than wives and
minor children. Breadwinners are
entitled to bring their wives and
children without numerical limi
tation.
Under Category A, which pro
vide i r the entry of 2,000 so-call
ed capitalists, means of $5,000 are
required.
Tri-Faith Committee
To Settle Strike
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.—Catho
lic. Protestant and Jewish
leaders of this community
have offered to meet with
publishers of the local news
papers and with representa
tives of the American News
paper Guild “to explore the
Possibilities of an equitable
settlement” of a several-
weeks-old strike which has
shut down the four newspa
pers.
Roosevelt Encourages
Hadassah Convention
Courage in the face of one of the darkest periods of Jew
ish history, was the keynote of the 24th annual convention
of Hadassah. The 1,000 delegates assembled in St. Louis,
heard a message from President Roosevelt as well as from
leading Jews of the world. The President’s message con
gratulated the Hadassah for its i
quarter century of “ministration Jullieta N. Benjamin of New York,
on behalf of those who are sick,” ; told of the voluntary service of
and added his best wishes for a Eddie cantor, wh0t sin gi e -handed,
“convention that will inspire all . „ ... . ,
who participate to work with un- ralscd $500,000 for Hadassah s
remitting zeal for the relief of Youth Aliyah which transfers
human suffering, wherever it is j Jewish children from Central Eu-
found.” rope to Palestine.
Miss Henrietta Szold, 77-year- , Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian
old Mother of Hadassah, now con- leader and Professor at Union
ducting social service work in Theological Seminary, spoke from
Palestine, urged the women to I New York over an international
continue their work from Ameri- j broadcast between London, St.
ca “as healers of the daughters of Louis and New York. Addressing
our people and saviour of our himself to “Jews and Christians
youth ” Miss Nell Ziff, president j everywhere Dr. Niebuhr said that
of the Junior Hadassah stressed j the “forces of democracy have
the -fact that the “Munich pact in ! been defeated by the cohorts of
Europe made it impossible for j reaction in Europe. As a Chns-
Jewish young man and women to ; tian, speaking to Jews, I express
ignore their responsibilities as | my genuine admiration for the
Ws” j Jewish spirit and my sense of
Mrs Moses P. Epstein of New that an allegedly Christian civil!-
nationa. P~ ( ° ey'of ! 5, ? M«.
hop^has^ppeared orf ttuf’horizon former president of Hadassah at
after months of despair ^ indi-j present ^member of^
to’be’consideidng the widening of Agency for Palestine, spoke from
immigration to Palestine.” Miss London.
Justice Cotillo
Pledges Help
Now York, N. Y.—Supreme
Court Justice Salvatore A.
Cotillo. in a radio address,
pledged himself to “aid world
Jewry In attaining religious
and civil liberty.” Justice Co-
tillo urged Americans to bat
tle Fascism, but not outside
the confines of America. "Fas
cism," Cotillo said, “should
not be fought on any racial,
communistic or ideological
basis. It should be fought, if
it Is to be fought, as an Ameri
can issue and fought wher
ever it interferes with our
American Way.
Last Honors For
Jewish Mayor
Tiberias, Palestine—Z a k i el
HadefT, Jewish Mayor of Tiberias,
scion of a long line of Palestine
Jewish leaders and rabbis, was es-
j corted to his burial ground by
: thousands of people from every
section of Palestine who had come
to pay this last tribute to the 45-
year old Mayor, who died of bullet
wounds inflicted by Arab assassins.
Gloom gripped the Jewish sec
tion of the ancient city, while all
Jews stopped work during the
funeral. Eulogies were delivered
at the funeral by Mayor Israel Ro-
gach of Tel Aviv, Abraham Elma-
wh for the Vaad Leumi and Sam
uel Zimmerman for the colonies in
Galilee.
Zaki el HadefT was shot and kill
ed a few days ago when he came
out of his office on his way to
lunch. Three revolver shots, fired
from opposite the Anglo-Palestine
Bank Building, hit him in the back.
As he fell to the pavement, the
assailants escaped.
was
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national
chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee’s campaign, who came
recently to Atlanta on behalf of
his organization.
A new appeal, urgent and im
pressive, is now being made to
American Jews, to help in this
emergency, which unexpectedly
struck countless Polish Jews ren
dered completely helpless during
years of persecution.
Rabbi Wise made public a tele
gram which he was sending to
Jewish communal leaders and
fund raising organizations
throughout the United States, ap
pealing for $1,000,000, in cash in
addition to monies their commun
ities have already subscribed to
ward the national campaign of the
Joint Distribution Committee for
$5,100,000.
The latest figure sent by J.D.C.
representatives on the spot in the
border cities of Poland wherever
the deportees were converging,
was 20,000, with the likelihood that
mass deportations would continue
despite negotiations between the
Polish and the Reich governments.
The reports from the J.D.C.
representatives said that the suff
ering among the thousands of
refugees concentrated in the var
ious frontier towns of Poland is
indescribable. In one community,
Kattowicz, where 5,000 of the re
fugees were given temporary
shelter, many of them were found
ill from the hardships of enforced
travel. Hundreds of children were
separated from their parents. So
sudden was the influx of these
refugees in Kattowicz, that it was
necessary to augment the food
supply of that city.
The report from overseas prais
ed the aid and cooperation of the
Polish authorities. The popula
tions in these frontier towns arc
most helpful and sympathetic.
The tremendous increase of the
burden upon the shoulders of the
J.D.C., so soon after the Austria
and Sudeten incidents, has deplet
ed all available funds of the J.D.C.
SISTERHOOD FEDERATION
MEETING AT MACON
HELP ARRIVES - JDC STILLS HUNGER
Macon, Ga.—Expecting the larg-
’ up of delegates present at
a (^mention of the Tri-State
eaerai on of Temple Sisterhoods,
"fficers are preparing for
^seventeenth annual conference
n,here next Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday.
>n 50 delegates from 23
ut ^presenting as many
Alabama, Florida and
iave already been certi-
convention. This is the
mbership ever recorded
-,‘ j n, according to Sister-
iers, following the ad-
’he Valdosta, Ga., and
^a., Sisterhoods.
-State Federation is a
“ National Federation of
■ terhoods, the women’s
can u Um° n of Ameri-
F*de • e . w Congregations. The
fi ed pla
Hague
life
cities
Georg
fied tc
larges
in the
unit o
Temp
divici,
3 aim is to find a digni-
or woman in the syna-
• to create a Jewish way
the Vr Jewish woman in
Am dern World -
wh X 7 lts a ccomplishments, in
ha- ‘v., r ‘® Tri-State Federation
'•qu.,*• are the erection and
Heb^ -V r\ of i^e dormitory at
the pr r - L , ni T on College, raising of
ship iur ' Cnion College scholar-
arrying on of an edu
cational and religious program,
and co-operation with Jewish and
non-Jewish organizations for
peace and social betterment.
The National Federation will be
represented by Jane Evans, o
Cincinnati, Ohio, who will speak,
at Thursday night’s dinner, and
Mrs. Julian Hennig, of Columbia,
S. C., fifth vice president.
The convention will open Wed
nesday evening with an mfori T a
buffet supper at the Tem P,\® it ^’
nex for local members,-visitors
delegates and their husbands. The
executive board of the region will
meet Wednesday night.
The first business meeting will
be held Thursday at 9:30 a. m.and
a luncheon will be held at 1 p. rn.
A symposium on Youth is sche -
uled for the afternoon and a ban
quet, concert and dance for the.
eV £lection of officers and director
Will take Place at the second busi
s&s laA’Sn-ssA’fc
^Largest delegation will be from
Atlanta, representing The Temp^
Sisterhood. including ■-* ot ‘
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l I) ( truck arriving in a to sickness, adults are collapsing Until their status—whether they
o ,• K hnnifr town where the ex- under the terrific strain of sorrow are Polish citizens or not—is de-
ESfftJd Jews are being cared and privation-and the J.D.C Ls termlned they will have to remain
pairw.^ . reds have been left in running out of money, which Is the where they are or return at their
* on , land” expelled from only means to secure shelter and own expense to their own homes,
no-m - admitted into r ocd for the unfortunates who are only to face a repetition of forcible
Poland^ Children are falling prey ! depending upon that help.
ejection.