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The Southern Israelite
Weekly Newspaper
VOL. XVII. NO. 2
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1942
PRICE TEN CENTS
Naturalization of Enemy
Aliens Not To Be Halted
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The of-
flee of the HIAS here wu this
week authoritatively informed
that there is no ground whatsoever
to assume that non-citizen* who
are technically "enemy aliens"
cannot become citizen* of the
United States for the duration of
the war Similarly there is no
basis for the assumption that natu
ralization proceeding* generally
will be held up until the end of
the war.
"The entry of the United State*
into the war," it was explained,
“has brought into operation Sec
tlon 326 of the Nationality Act of
1840 which governs condition
under which enemy aliens may
become naturalized American cit
izens. Under these provisions,
aliens who are nationals of Ger
many or of Italy may still become
naturalized in the United States If
on December 8, 1941 they: 1. had
made a declaration of Intention,
first papers, at lead two years but
not more than seven years before
that date; or 2. were entitled to
apply for citizenship without mak
ing a declaration of intention, for
example the husband or wife of an
American citizen; or 3. had their
petition for naturalization pending
in court
'The Immigration and Natural-
Will Watch
Antisemitic
U. S. Groups
WASHINGTON. (JTA)—Anti-
Semitic organizations in America
will be taken under special obser
vation, it wa* indicated here as a
result of President Roosevelt’s
message to the reassembled
Seventy-seventh Congress. in
which the President went out of
his way to emphasize that this
country ‘‘must be particularly
vigilant against racial discrimina
tion in any of its ugly forms.”
Reports reaching Washington
from various parts of the country
reveal that in a number of cities
the police have raided meeting*
held by organizations known to be
anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi, includ
ing a meeting of the Christian
Front in Boston. Francis P. Moran.
Boston director of the Christian
Front, voluntarily appeared be
fore the Boston Police Commis-
ioner and surrendered 11.000
-ooks and pamphlets as well as
I ecord* of the Christian Front.
/ | In his historic message to Con-
ytreu. President Roosevelt said:
must guard agamst divisions
ng ourselves and among all
United Nations. We must
rly vigilant against
ination in any of its
tier will try again
it and suspicion
ividual and an-
and another, one
, one government
will try to use
of falsehood
with which
See from Britain,
o this even now;
s untiy. a unity
against him
until the de-
his black designs
and people of
wartime conditions, a period of
90 days in which to conduct an
Investigation and to submit objec
tions to the Court if it felt that
the individual case warrants it.
Aliens who do not fall within the
above-described categories cannot
be naturalized unless the Presi
dent of the United States ha* ex
empted them from ihe enemy alien
classification. In such cases the
Department of Justice is required
to make an investigation and sub
mit a report to the President to
establish their loyalty without
question "
IN THE NEWS
K\ltltl Isadore Goodman, regi
onal minister for North und North
east London and assistant to Brit
ish Chief Rabbi, has arrived in
this country for a -hort stay at the
Invitation of the Union of Ortho
dox Jewish Congregations of
America.
Protestant Leaders
Open Anti-Prejudice
Educational Program
NEW YORK, (JTA)—An edu
cational program aimed at dispell
ing prejudice will be launched
among 25,000,000 American Pro
testants as the result of a two-day
session, which concluded here this
week, at the office* of the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews.
The directing committee is head
ed by Dr. Henry Noble McCrack
en. president of Vassar College,
nnd Includes thirty Protestant edi
tors. publication experts und reli
gious education leaders.
JDC Arranges Lisbon
To Jamaica Emigration
NEW YORK. (JTA)—Emigra
tion from Portugal to the British
island of Jamaica for 180 stranded
Poilsh-Jewish refugees has been
made possible through the collab
oration of the Joint Distribution
Committee with the British and
Polish government it was an
nounced here this week by Joseph
C. Hyman, executive vice-chair
man of the JDC.
The refugees, have been strand
ed in Lisbon for periods up to a
year and a half.
United Jewish Appeal Is
Renewed by Agreement
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The unified fund-raising campaign
of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs
and Palestine will bo continued for the critical war year of
1942, it was announced here this week by Dr. Abba Hillel
Silver, National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal,
and Dr. Jonah B. Wise, Chairman of the Fund-Raising Com
mittee of the Joint Distribution Committee. The United Jew
ish Appeal was established in 1939 to provide for the needs
of the Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal
and National Refugee Service.
Following the precedent established in previous years, it
was agreed that an initial sum of $9,100,000 be appropriated to
the three agencies to enable them to operate until an Allot
ment Committee shall have an opportunity to distribute all
funds that will become available to the campaign. This initial
sum is to be allotted to the participating organizations as
follows: To the Joint Distribution Committee, $4,525,000, to
the United Palestine Appeal, $2,575,000 and to the National
Refugee Service a guaranteed sum of $2,000,000. On this basis
the balance of the funds is to be distributed between the
Joint Distribution Committee and the United Palestine Ap
peal by the Allotment Committee established along the lines
of similar committees in previous years.
Declaring that since the outbreak of the war in September
1939, the agencies represented in the United Jewish Appeal
have been confronted with an ever-expanding theatre of
Jewish suffering and need, the joint statement by Dr. Wise
and Dr. Silver stressed the fact that America’s entry into the
war has imposed upon the Joint Distribution Committee
United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee Service even
greater responsibilities, requiring them to conduct their oper-
i ations on a full wartime basis.
600,000 Poles in Russia Need Relief
LONDON, (JTA)—Some 600,000 Jews from Poland are among the
approximately 2,000,000 Polish refugees now scattered in distant parts
of Soviet Russia, all in need of relief, it was estimated here thla week
by official Polish circles following a press conference addressed by
General Sikorski Polish Premier and Cnmirandor-in-Chief vh<> re-
Thousands Massacred
SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE,
(JTA)—More thin 60.000
have been massacred in
cently relumed from Soviet Russia after conferences with Stalin. . .
1h. Poll.il Civilian., Gen. Slkookl ,»ld. wore con/ln.d In .cv.r»l “• »"■* f*"*" by Rumanian
hundred camps extending from Franz Josef Land to Archangel and *° , "T* * | Une ’w i
Soviet Turkestan. The refugees from Poland, Jews und Poles alike, 7j u 1 H W n
who have been held In the northern camps are now being brought to ,. P ° , ' * herc rrom
the south where climatic conditions and food supplies are better. ur nrc *
Special inspectors appointed by the Polish embassy in Moscow ore /^ rre «jf0H | n Hlfnil'irv
being given facilities to ameliorate the privations of the refugees. ' ***"
More than one third of these inspectors arc Jews, since it is believed
that at lease one-third of alt Polish deportees in Russia are Jews.
Gen Sikorski said that the Polish army Is now being formed in ncction with President Roosevelts
Russia of Polish nnd Jewish internees and civilians of military age, message this week to the reas-
already numbers 100,000 men. Some 25,000 soldiers will be sent to sembled Congress, hundreds of
the Near East and Britain while the remainder will be stationed in the Jews were arrested this week in
sector of Tashkent and Almaata, where thousands of civilian Polish j Budapest and sent to a coneentra-
refugecs are now permitted to reside and where the Polish Red Cross tion camp, according to advices
ZURICH, (JTA)—Charged with
spreading “wild rumors” In con-
ADMIRAL Yates Stirling Jr„
former Chief of Staff, U. S Fleet,
will be a featured speaker at the
National Conference for Palestine
in Cleveland January 17-18. He
will talk on “Palestine and the
Naval Strategy of the War."
is trying to organize relief for them.
Palestine in the Cables
reaching here from the Hungarian
capital.
The rounding up of Jews in
cafes and public places has been
intensified In Budapest since Hun
gary Joined Hitler In declaring
war on the United States. Some
300 Jews were arrested in Buda-
\
This is
colonies—the
tine—establt
which is n<
effort to
gram to
war peril
Common t
versary.
C HAIRMAN Sigmund Livingston
of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defama
tion has received a historic letter
from Henry Ford, which is re
produced on page eight (6).
ANNOUNCE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW COLONIES
JERUSALEM. (JTA)—Two new settlements have been
established on Jewish National Fund land in Palestine:
Avukah, in the Beisan area, near Kfar Ruppin, and Maanith, Jn t h e course of last week on
located near Karkur. charges of listening to British and
PALESTINIANS TO HAVE FOOD RATIONING American broadcasts and spread-
LONDON, (JTA)—Rationing of essential food will begin ing anti-Axis news. They were all
in Palestine on February 1, according to a report appearing sent to concentration camps with-
this week in the London Times. The first commodity to be out any hearings,
rationed will be sugar.
wire congratulations to haile selassie Paris Disbars 246
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A message to Haile Selassie, ruler VICHY, (JTA)—Only 48 Jewish
of Ethiopia, congratulating him on the “final liberation of his lawyers will be permitted to prac-
country from the Fascist hordes” was sent this week by the tice in the Paris courts under an
Vaad Leumi, the Jewish National Council of Palestine. order issued this week. The order
WOMEN HALUTZIM TO FORM SPECIAL CORPS debars an additional 246 Jewish
JERUSALEM. (JTA)—Special Jewish units will be set up counsellors,
with the Palestine Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service. . ^ .
RUTENBERG WILL CREATES ENDOWMENT FUND Bessarabia Judenrein
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A “Pinchas Rutenberg Endowment BERNE, (JTA)—Bessarabia, the
Fund” which will be used to “inculcate in our youth the province of Rumania which had a
spirit of unity and brotherhood—the spirit of Israel,” is pro- Jewish population of 200,000 In
vided for in two wills left by the Palestine leader and electri- 1940, is now completely “Judon*
cal genius who died on Saturday, was disclosed here last rein”, according to Radu Lecca,
week. Rumanian Minister of Jewish Af-
The fir*t will dated October 14, 1941, directs that all Ruten- fain. His statement, published in
berg’s personal property be placed in this fund the proceeds the Nazi prass which reached her*
of which will be used to educate Jewish youth in Palestine, this week, also adda that In the
A second will dated Novembr 5, 1941, specifies that the pro
ceeds of Rutenberg’s estate be transferred annually to the
! new fund.
province of Bukovtn* "fifty per
cent of all the Jews have already
been removed."