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The Southern Israelite
VOL. XIII—NO. 46
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
A 1 LANTA, GA„ FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Anti-Nazi Week, Picture
Ban Planned By J. B. C.
As an action of opposition to Hitler’s regime, the Joint
Bovcott Council has set aside the week of November 27to
December 3 as the Second Annual Anti-Nazi Week.
The Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Con
fess and the Jewish Labor Committee holds firm in its
Eviction -that the Nazis can be
broken even now, after their con-
qlK Kt of Sudetenland, if the mass
es t
den
live
Boy
off
Ti
f liberty loving people in the
uiiatic countries take up ac-
v the peaceful weapon of
tt nd cut the Nazi economy
rom the civilized world.
..ie program for the Anti-Nazi
Week will include: Mass meetings
th: ugliout the country, radio pro-
rra r - dissemination of Anti-Nazi
literature. distribution of “Boy
cott Nazi Germany” buttons and
picketing of boycott
daily
Th(
Boy. .t
on the
Their
tone fo
issue «i
all tail
join in
Hitler's
soil
The
Coun i
Ant;-H
-'outh Division of the Joint
t Council plans a huge rally
t day of Anti-Nazi Week,
aim is to set the militant
r the events that follow and
call to American Youth of
and political ideals to
common effort to drive
ods and agents from our
Women’s Division of the
organizing a special I
r Women’s Day to spot- |
n s social and economic j
degradation °f German woman-
. They will call upon Ameri
can women to join the AntiNazi |
Boycott as the only non-violent j
and effective way to stop Hitler.
In New York City, the Anti-
Nazi Week will be climaxed with j
a huge mass meeting, addressed
by prominent civic and church j
leaders. All national and local
organizations affiliated with the
Amen, n Jewish Congress and the !
Jewish Labor Committee will
participate in the scheduled activ
ities.
4U Th A e Joint B °y cott Council of
the American Jewish Congress and
the Jewish Labor Committee de
clared that it was planning a cam
paign to make certain that the
Nazi propaganda film of the 1936
Olympics which is being brought
over to this country by Leni Rie-
fenstahl, Hitler’s intimate director
of the Nazi film industry, would
not be shown anywhere in the
United States.
Nazi films, in addition to serving
as a means of revenue for the
Hitler Government, have also been
utilized as vehicles for the dis
semination of Nazi propaganda.
The film of the 1936 Olympics falls
into this category according to a
declaration of Minister of Propa
ganda Goebbels, who called it “the
greatest instrument of Nazi pro
paganda ever created.”
Telegrams to every leading dis
tributing company as well as to
a number of the more important
exhibitors, said as follows:
“Seeking your cooperation
as in the past to stop possible
showing of Nazi Olympics
film brought to this country
by Leni Riefenstahl. This
production part of Nazi
propaganda attack on Ameri
can instiutions and American
Democracy. Council will pick
et all houses hooking this Fas
cist picture. Your aid needed
in safeguarding our people
from virus of Hitler doctrine
of hate.”
The statement and telegrams
were signed by Dr. Joseph Tenen-
baum, Chairman of the Council.
GOVERNOR HERBERT II. LEHMAN
Governor Herbert 11. Lehman.
New York’s Jewish chief execu
tive, has been re-elected by a pop
ular majority for a four year
tearm. This, Lehman's fourth
consecutive term, brings the total
of his administration to ten years.
Only two other governors qf
the Empire State ever enjoyed
such popularity and extended sup
port; Alfred E. Smith and Frank
lin D. Roosevelt.
Mexico Deports
Jewish Refugees
Mexico City, Mexico—Twenty-
one German and Austrian Jewish
refugees, six of whom had escaped
from concentration camps, were
deported to Germany last week by
the Mexican authorities despite
last-minute unofficial intervention
by U. S. Ambassador Josephus
Daniels and a pledge by Jewish
leaders in New York to guarantee
their maintenance in Mexico. The
deportation order is reported to
have been confirmed by President
Cardenas who ignored a telegra
phic plea from the Jewish Cham
ber of Commerce in Mexico. An
other 20 Jewish emigrees were also
deported on the same ship.
Meanwhile. Mexico adopted a
new immigration policy when Sec
retary of Interior Tellez decreed
that foreigners who have lost their
nationality will be admitted to
Mexico “only in exceptional cases
of notorious benefit for the coun
try” and then only if “they are
prepared to form Mexican meztizo-
familii f ’’ by marrying Indians.
At the same time a new immigra
tion quota law established a maxi
mum of 1,000 immigrants annu
ally from Germany, Belgium,
France, Czechoslovakia, Denmark.
Holland, Italy, England, Japan,
Norway Sweden and Switzerland
and 100 each for all other non-
American countries,
llavannu, Cuba—The 21 Ger
man and Austrian Jews who were
deported to Germany from Mexi
co last week have been allowed
to land here by the Cuban immi
gration authorities and may be
permitted to remain when the cus
tomary bond of $600 is posted for
each of them. The refugee me
temporarily housed at the Tiscor-
nia immigration station pending
an official decision regarding their
status.
Council Meet
Birmingham, Aia—Plans for the
sixth annual Southern Regional
conference of the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds, to be held in Memphis,
next March, were drafted
at a joint meeting of the Regional
Executive Board and the Planning
Committee.
Mrs. Louis Kaufman of Mont
gomery. Aya , presided in the ab
sence of Ben Goodman, Jr., of
Memphis, Tenn.
Among the subjects discussed
w as the problem of refugee re-
stellement. the need for inter-city
co-operation, planning of informa
tion or trade area bases and great-
er clearance of information on the
Problem.
Discussion on the problems of
welfare fund financing for over
caring for children and
he aged, were led by Armand
dent, and Armand Wyle,
vice-president, of the
> brew Orphan Home,
mil L. Leipziger of New
-„5 an ‘ s : La - reported on a plan to
needs of Jewish social
^ in this region,
ie-en* at the meeting were:
den. t, nt Armand May, presi-
mard w’‘i eW 0r Phans Home; Ar-
dpniu" V;< executive vice presi-
v Orphans Home; Ed-
ta-v , executive secre-
V e Regional Conference;
tnembe "llu Herma " Heyman,
v ; the committee.
•ans—Leon Simon, fist
H 0Ire ! r ' n t Jewish Children’s
inte-der t y h Ginsbu rg, super-
n Children’s Home;
or jw * Lashman, field direct-
fa; r I 1 -hddren’s Home; Rab-
»i d L Leipziger.
rte;r 'Mrs. Stella Loewen-
Wei;-'. rp r l ! tive . secretary Jewish
board ‘ deration; Leo Bearman,
Folks H ber B ’ nai B ' rith old
than y —Mrs. Louis Kauf-
ftnfere ;ni strative secretary of
PresiHprV’ m —William FngeJ,
ewish Welfare Fund;
?oth ’ ' 1 . Sterne: Benianrn
H A. : u ll !y e secretary Y. M.
JfcWM v ° nra Roth, secretary
welfare Fund.
Fear Rumanian
Anti-Semitism
New York, N. Y.—Fearing that j
the adoption of the complete pro
gram of totalitarianism in Ruma
nia will bring about intensified |
anti-Semitism in that country,
Junior Hadassah, the Young Wo
men’s Zionist Organization of |
America, announced yesterday i
that twenty-five Jewish children
of school age will be transferred j
from Rumania to Meier Shfeyah,
a children’s village in Palestine j
maintained by the youth Zionist
organization.
J.D.C. GETS $300,000
New York, N. Y.—Over
$300,000 has been received In
the last four days in response
to an appeal for a $1,000,000
emergency fund to meet the
problems arising out of mass
deportations of Polish Jews
from Germany and recent
recent events in Czechoslova
kia and Austria, it was an
nounced at the offices of the
American Jewish Joint Dis
tribution Committee, in New
York City, In New York
alone over $50,000 has been
been received in immediate
response to the emergency
appeal.
Palestine Expects Peace
Palestinian Immigrant s Hotel
Jerusalem, Palestine—Jewish lead
ers and Arab chieftains from Pal
estine and the surrounding coun
tries were summoned last week to
London by the British government
in an attempt to affect a peace
ful settlement of the Palestinian
PI England last’ week served a stern
ultimatum to the Arabs who will
be given one more chance to come
to peaceful terms with the Jews.
I? they do not take that chance,
Britain intends to take matters in o
her own hands and impose upon
Palestine her own solution, in
Peel Plan. Droviding a division of
Palestine has been definitely
abandoned by the British govern
ment. _. .
According to an official an
nouncement England will continue
to administer its League of Na
tions mandate over Palestine. In
formed quarters expect Jewish
immigration into Palestine to be
further curtailed despite objec
tions from Zionist quarters. But
it was defiinitely stated that
American rights and interests in
Palestine will be carefully safe
guarded in all deliberations re
garding the future of the Holy
Land.
80,000 GERMANS
“DECONVERTED”
London, England—The Eve
ning Standard quotes official
statistics of the German Gov
ernment showing that during
the three months, June, July
and August of this year, 80-
000 Germans registered them
selves as “deconverted” from
Christianity. During the same
period 5,000 Germans regis
tered themselves as converts
to Lslam.
JEWS SETTLE IN LIBERIA
Bucharest, Rumania—A Jewish
settlement in the black Republic
of Liberia in Africa will be launch
ed shortly, it was learned here
when the steamer Draga left for
Monrovia, capital of Liberia, car
rying 400 Jewish refugees who
had left Austria a week ago. All
of them have obtained permission
from the Liberian government to
settle in the African republic
which was founded in 1822 by
freed American Negroes and
abolitionists as a homeland for the
Negro race.
Hadassah Carries On
BY MRS. J. ABELSON
The 24th Annual National Ha
dassah Convention, held in St.
Louis last week, was attended by
representatives of 39 states and
147 cities.
Among the important speakers
at the convention w’ere Miss Susan
Brandeis, a daughter of Justice
Brand #is of the United States
Supreme Court, Dr. Israel Gold
stein, President of Jewish Nation
al Fund in America, and Dr. Nu-
hur* Goldman, representative of
the Jewish Agency of Palestine
to the League of Nations.
•ther interesting features of the
convention were trans-Atlantic
broadcasts by Mrs. Moses P. Ep
stein, National President of Ha
dassah; Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr,
Professor of Applied Christianity
at the Union Theological Seminary
of New York, and Mrs. Edward
Jacobs, former president of Ha-
l dassah, who spoke from London,
England.
At the Youth Aliyah luncheon,
at which Misses Ingrid and Gazel-
la Warburg, nieces of the deceased
Felix Warburg, spoke, $125,000
was raised. At another meeting,
featuring the Jewish National
Fund project, 16,000 trees were
pledged for the Hadassah forest
to be planted in honor of Eddie
Cantor, who, personally, has rais
ed almost $100,000 for Youth Ali-
1 yah, the imrftigration movement
which transfers boys and girls
between the ages of 13 and 17
from European countries to Pal
estine, where they are trained,
maintained and schooled for two
years before being absorbed into
the life of the country. The re
markable achievement of Youth
Aliyah has been the salvaging of
31,000 children in the last four and
a half years, almost 1000 having
been taken into Palestine in the
last six months.
The financial report of Hadassah
activities for the past year shows
that over a million and quarter
dollars has been raised by Hadas-
sah for Palestine. The Rothschild-
Hadassah-University Hospital it
completed and will be an institu
tion of medical research unequal
led in the Near East.
In the face of all the danger and
the terrorism which has raged in
Palestir*? the past two and a half
years, the courage and faith of
the Jew has not been broken. They
are continually building in the face
of all this danger. Twenty-seven
new colonies having been formed
in the past year and the largest
tract of land purchased in the past
ten years, 35,000 dunam, was pur
chased this year by the Jewish
National Fund.
“We wish to bring to the people
of Atlanta the message of the Na
tional President of Hadassah, Mrs.
Moses P. Epstein, that we, in bless
ed America, should hear and heed
the call of our stricken people and
we should match their strength
and heroism with our own faith
and continue to carry on."