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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 14, 1942
The Southern Israelite
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their guilt behind the bars. The
! government, according to Wash
ington reports, is still looking for
a number of others. Among them
the Dies Committee that he fav- Gestapo headquarters to give “ex-
ored hanging for all Jews.
planations” about my anti-Nazi
Is it not a strange fact that all despatches to America . . . Accom-
of these anti-Semites should be panied by the American Consul,
pro-Nazis. It seems to lend support Raymond H. Geist, I appeared in
are Robert Edmondson, who t be theory of Maurice Samuel the office of the recently-assassi-
“proved” President Roosevelt’s and others that the real base for nated Gestapo leader Heydrich for
“Jewish ancestry” as well as Wm. the hatred against the Jews is that questioning during which it be-
Robert Lyman, Jr. of the National the Jew is regarded as a demo- came obvious that the Gestapo
Workers League who once told * cratic influence. keeps a record of Jewish leaders
in America and England ... No
one, however, suspected that the
Gestapo was also going out of its
way to compile lists of Jews in
the service of Government insti-
1 tutions in America . . . One can
easily imagine the extent of the
“Jewish Who’s Who” compiled by
tn H 1 ernment is about to assign Lease- ed Epstein as the moving spirit of the Gesta P° during the years of
1 | Lend money for Jewish self-de- the Committee at a time when the existence of the Nazi regime,
I fense in Palestine . . . Negotiations certain charges against him in as established now by the FBI,
the compilation of Jewish names
in America is still part-and-parcel
of the Nazi espionage work in the
United States at present.
BETWEEN YOU AND ME
Ily BEN LEWIS
j rather an unfortunate choice on
Don’t be surprised to learn one the part of the Jewish Anti-Com-
We Hold the Third Front
Suppose the war were suddenly to end tomorrow. Are we
prepared to go into war-struck Europe and rebuild over the
ruins? For this, in effect, constitutes the third front in our
war against the Axis. The reconstruction of lives and com
munities on a lasting democratic basis is what President jj^hjnd the SCENE:
Roosevelt meant when he declared that “we will win the
^lTthXtUe°tokiep This third front open American Jews] ^ese
are doing their part. A report of the work of the Joint Distri
bution Committee for 1941 and the first five months of 1942,
which has just been issued, testifies to that. During this 17-
months period vv
was to spend $9
—to feed, clothes
aid and child care, provide vocational training opportunities, , , , , , . .. | .• ,, •
and many other forms of help and hope to 950,000 Jews on tukcn a P ers “ nal interest in ery for , th * FB * llst V°
r r' n th» rmncfirm u/hothnr n Tmi/ich flames of Jewish officials in the
five continents.
the question of whether a Jewish names of Jewish officials in the FORGOTTEN FACTS:
John Jacob Astor, the ancestor
the millionaire Astors of today,
mployed by an early Jewish
is stated to have indicated to Dr. America is to compile a card sys- immigrant. Hayman Levy of New
So long as we continue to do our share, we may justly feel l ^ r J 7iy should be established in hands of arrested Nazi spies in Joh,
at the Jewish tragedy overseas is not entirely hopeless. We Pa,estlne ... After listening to New York . . . It seems that one of the
ive a living reminder of that in the history since the last Zl,mi8t and Bntish arguments, he of the missions of Naz> agents m was e.
* * . I i L’ cl n 10/1 4 !•»»»«»»-. iM/linnfnJ T A** /A Itl nr lf*Il 1C f fl Pn m fi 110 n enerl c vc i tvi m t cf
that
have
war. Operating for the most part in the East European war
sector
activities
who
day of peace but also to assist substantially in making that , , , .u? 1.1. .u o B
peace worthwhile for their communities and people. It was 1 Pinkerton - asked the Jewish Agen-: rouble with the Gestapo in Her- Adolphus Solomons,
then that the J. D. C. assumed its historic role as an agency i c y offke in Palestine to 1,n \ 1 notll ' ed thnt l t he Nazi secret leader in Washington
of reconstruction. Emergency relief was fused into self-help 1 him a11 available data on the par- police were comp,ling names of was so popular among e*
social services. Life was not only given a chance to go on; it jdcipation of Palestine Jews in the • ewis 1 ,a < ers *' >r ° a
was given a new meaning and a new impetus. British war effort .. . Mr. Fink- was w en was summ
It is a tragic irony that the Jewish committees and organ- ° Iton * report on this subject is ex-
izations, and their trained personnel, which the J. D. C. had pectod in Washington in connec-
carefully nurtured and financed, today must turn their appa- tion witb tbe P ossibility ot :,SSW1 ‘
artus of aid to the urgent tasks of war relief, instead of con- inj; ,,ie Lease-Lend funds .
tinuing with programs of permanent rehabilitation. But we Whilt? sentime nts in Washington
J ewish
Hebrew
early Amer-
That can scholars that a chair in He-
summoned to the (Continued on Page 3)
Out Hollywood Way
By HELEN ZIGMOND
may well imagine how infinitely greater the Jewish holo- ;,rc divided on the question of the ; Most unusual picture
caust would have been in this war if these committees were j creation of a Jewish Army in Pal- son is “Tales of Mai
of the sea- hasn’t lost the third wife-
inhattan", a They are not divorcing
yet.
have
not in existence, or if there were no J. D. C. to lessen the dis- estblc ’ lbere seems to be no oppo- <ireamed-up creation of Boris worked out a plan for their separ
ation to the demand to have Jews Morros and S. P. Eagle, indepen- ate careers . . . and mean to give
tress,
For many centuries overseas Jews have suffered more than
their non-Jewish neighbors because they bore persecution in
addition to the general hardships of war or disaster. That is
why we, as Americans and more fortunate Jews, must carry l>alest 'ne is well realized by all
the burden of aid to them overseas in addition to the duties vvh<> have something to say in
which the war effort demands of us. That extra burden will vv ashington • • Somebody ought
turn into a triumphant monument to Jewish courage and to inform tbe Committee for a
foresight when the nations of the earth lay down their arms Jewish Army t,lat the word ‘ Pai-
i- *■ * - • y 1 estine” is misspelled on the beau-
tiful and expensive bronze sign
hanging on the door of its Wash
ington office . . . The sign reads:
in Palestine armed for self-defense dent producers. On the slim thread it a try.
. . . The gravity of the Jewish
pfosition in case of Axis attack on
of one dress suit is hung a series
of unforgetable vignettes, em-
We hear that A1 Jolson is en-
broidered with more star-studded route overseas . . . but where, is a
performances than one sees in a
month of Sundays.
to take up peaceful pursuits
It Happened Last Week ...
military secret until he lights at
destination. Jolson has signed for
an ether show in October for a
Hattie” soa P company. Par-yakarkus is
Prologue in “Panama
warns; ’’Any resemblance between also i n the cast
these and any other sailors alive
is purely accidental." And watch
ing Ben Blue's convulsing contor
Close-ups; Phil Harris has been
placed in 1A, while Billy Rose
I Committee for a Jewish Army of Lj ons you know that no sailor stepped down to 3A. When Larry
By MILTON BROWN
Palistenian and Stateless Jews
could be like that and live!
We frequently forget that there confine the arrest of Pans Jews to RUSSIAN ECHOES:
are other than political revolu- those of non-French origin and to
tions. The report from Switzer- stop the deportation of French Jews j answer the call of Russian Jewry
land of the death of Professor to Poland and also to cease break- )or bombers and tanks to the Rus-
Richard Willstaetter, Nobel Chem- ing up Jewish families,
istry Prize winner, points to the Other reports coming
fact that this German Jewish sa- abroad indicate that occupied negotiated in New York ... It is
vant who had to flee his country France is now as much of a hell understood that Dr. Chaim Weiz-
“revolutionized" a field of chemis- for Jews as Poland. A bicycle mann was approached to serve on
try. track near Paris has been convert- ibis committee . . . Other Zionist
Wilstaetter broke new grounds ed into a concentration camp and leaders who may serve on this
Both Franz Werfel and Ladis-
Adler returns to the networks
he'll be a comedian! Sweden, one
of the last outposts of American
closed to this import. The Soviet
government offers all-out assis-
in research in chlorophyl. He more than 20.000 Jews are confin-
sought to try out the secrets by ed in such close quarters, that they Rothenberg
which Nature works in her vege- scarcely have room to stretch
tation and he made great strides themselves.
in that direction. He was another Paris, according to the same j j s a \ so occupying the minds of
Haber, the Jewish chemist who source, saw the arrival of 100,000 j other Jewish groups in America
showed how to extract nitrogen Germans. They are Nazi 'Tefu- ' interested in the fate of Russia
from the air- When Germany so- gees" from the German towns The possibility is not excluded that
bers up some day in the future, blasted by the RAF. Many of these ] the American Jewish Committee,
she will recognize that it is to men Nazis are being in dwellings for- the American Jewish Congress
like Wilstaetter and Haber and merly occupied by the Jews, now tbe B'nai B'rith. the Jewish Labor
big productions.
* * *
More about the “talk of two
towns"—Irving Berlin: Cities Ser
vice devoted an entire air concert
Ehrlich and Weinstein and not to under arrest.
The formation of a committee to|i aus Bus-Fekcte. writers of Euro- Movies on the Continent, is now
pean classics (B H.L are knock
ing out creamie-scripts in a major
sian Army as a gift of Jews in thej s t ud j 0 Werfel’s original, “Song of tance to fibn companies planning
from democratic countries is now' being Bernadette." and Bus-Fekete's st °ries Russia’s part in the war.
Birthday" are being prepared for ^e\eral such subjects are on tap
in Hollywood studios. Dinah Shore
was one of the entertainers at an
all-negro soldier camp. A tired
white horse draws an old-fashion
ed delivery wagon thru Flicker-
ville streets. It’s Paramount Pic
tures' film delivery . . . and it's no
prop! That Messerschmitt, which
Mrs Mervyn LeRoy, Mrs. Ernest
Lubitsch, and Mrs. Milton Bren
have been exhibiting cross-coun
try. garnered $250,000 for the Na
val Aid Auxiliary—2.750.000 peo
ple paid admissions to see it. When
Groucho appears in a George
w hat strange Kaufman play next season that
familiar black smudge above the
(committee include Judge Morris
The question of exc i us j v «i v t Q bis music, atribute
answering the call of the Jewish neypr accrrded by them to one
composer Not content with the
variety of American outlets he had
gained for his show, Berlin is
muHing over a possible London
performance, cast with American
•told 1 ers s* tioned there.
I Anti-Fascist Committee in Russia
Committee and other leading Jew-
• •ust c-thinking
lens-fellows the movies make
paranoiacs like Adolf Schickel- The report from Russia w r ere ish organizations w’ill be
gruber that her true glory lay. In- distinctly disquieting. The Rus-! nroached this month to do some- t,lat certain leading lady, former C jg ar w jjj have vanished,
c: den tally, it was Wilstaetter’s re- 8 ians were reported to be fiercely thing about this call ... It is felt “ oIat |°nist and reportedly
ays oppo- Harry Cohn, Columbia’s prexy
of all pic- and chairman of the sports com
mittee of the U. S. O., worked out
a plan whereby ninety members
Irving Hoffman relates that the of the armed forces may visit Hol-
Winchell damper for those poseurs lywood studios each week. Each
^ who prelude their conversation major studio has one day a w’eek
government regarding the treat- as Wm. Dudley Pelley. w’ho has j ing many in America from acting with. "Some of my best friends are set aside to take ten Service men
ment of Jew's in France, protesting been convicted of sedition, be- on the call of the Committee for Jews’ • . . is . . . T w'onder why! Q n tour,
in particular the mass arrests and comes apparent. “You wanted to Aid from American Jews . . . E?p- * * * * * *
deportations to Foland and Rus- be the Quisling of America," Pros- stein’s standing with Jews in When George Jessel heard an Jack Benny complains that in
8 j a ecutor Ewing said to Pelley at the .America is not such as to provoke actor grumbling about his bad luck, his current “epis” he has to corn-
searches in chlorophyl which resisting the Nazi onslaught and that the call cannot be altogether Amei ica-Fuehrster, plays ^PP°
paved the way for the remarkable many Jews were cited for heroism, carried by American Jewish bod- Slte Paul Mum • • • in - '
work done in chemistry by Dr. When one considers the blood that ies for the sake of the Jew’s in I tures - ' Tlle Commandos
Conant. now the President of Har- j s being spilled near the Caucasus Russia and on the other haqd. the
vard University. where the fate of not only Russia fact that Shachne Epstein is head-
A report came that the Pope but of America also hangs in the ing the Jewish Anti-Fascist Corn-
had intervened with the Petain balance, the danger of such men ; mittee in Kuibyshev, is prevent
According to this report, follow- trial and in that he told the whole a positive response to any call he scolded, “What have you got pete with a donkey, a cow, a dog,
ing the Papal Nuncio’s interven- story
w'hich carries his signature
It to complain about? I’ve lost two
a cat. a boy. and Ann Sheridan.
“And they think there’s trouble in
tion. Marshal Petain asked the Pelley is one of a number who is admitted even in pro-Oommun- fortunes and three wives, and look
German occupation authorities to have been given time to think over j ist circles in America that it w’as at me, still grinning.” But Georgie Malta!” he groans.