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Imaha Vacationists Killed in Automobile

Soldiers Were Present. As the body of Fonarow was lowered to, its resting place, a squad of uniformed soldiers from the local American Legion fired a volley of four shots over the grave. It was their last farewell to one of their "buddies." - , Fonarow's companion in death was then lowered in a grave paralled with Ms..

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Mother Dead From Starvation—Five Children Cross Ocean To Join Father

Two Children of Family of Seven Die Also While Waiting . t o Get Into This Country. Two Hundred Killed and Wounded m One Town; Four JewAfter trying; for eight years to ish Families Massacred. bring his family of eight to Omaha

Phii Singer and Joseph Fonarow, Who Were Killed in Auto Accident, Buried; American Legion in Attendance. -More than 2,000 men and women and hundred of automobiles blocked all streets leading to 225 North Nine-* teents street Monday afternoon during the funeral services of Joseph FonarbTV, one of the two young Jewish men lolled in an automobile accident Sunday. ' • •. • "While t h e services were in progress the funeral p a r t y of Phil Singer, 22, t h e other Jewish youth who m e t his fate in the Sunday-tragedy, made its appearance at the Fonarow home. • Hundreds who lined the streets and sidewalks around the Fonarow home wept as the double funeral cortege began its journey to the Golden Hjll cemetery, north of Florence. • It was the first double Jewish funeral since the death-tolling tornado of 1913. Both funeral services were marked by utmost simplicity and great grief. Both were well known among the younger Jewish set. The Singer youth was born and raised here, and Fonarow served overseas.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1921.

P a r i s . (J. T. A.) New details have been received in Jewish circles here regarding the pogrom movement in White Russia now being carried on > by the military divisions which were organized by the well-known Russian revolutionary—Boris Savinkov's "Russian Committee" in Warsaw. Incomplete details tell of a pogrom ! in the town,of Pokatkelitsch, in the district of Mazir, with 200 Jews killed and wounded. The Jewish colony Kotshitzi, in the district of Bobrosk, was completely destroyed, eighty Jews being killed and 100 wounded. In the pogrom on Pokovitehi, in the district of Minsk, twenty Jews -were killed. Of twenty-five Jews taken by the bands as hostages, eleven were shot. In Storova in the district of Slutszk, four Jewish families were massacred. • -

AMERICAN STUDIES UKRAINIAN CONDITIONS Warsaw. (J. T. A.) The representative of the International Immigration Office at "Washington, Mr. Wagner, visited the Ukrainian Committee and asked for information xegording the Ukrainian-Jewish immigration: their numbers, how many A Fund Committee was organized of- them want to emigrate, whither by the Keren -Hayesod for a Cam- they want to imigrate, and how paign to be held some time in Oc- many of them want to come to America. Mr. Wagner stated that tober. — •.:•-.•:-• he would forward, the report to Following are the committees: Washington. Advisory Committee:— ' Wm. L. Holzman, Chairman; H. A. .C^airman;rHairy Lapidus,

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Fonarow, friends said,* had planned to go to Russia this summer to bring his mother to this country.- '•' • ;]., IThe two met their death when an A . B;:«-Ailpirn>•• :Mr&r. B. ... jautomobll.o in which- they Trere.ridinff- J turned turtle six miles east of Oak- "Kulakofsky, Mrs.' Philip Sher, Hiss Diana. Gross. _' t ' * land", la., on the White Pole road. Both men were pinned beneath the • Executive Committee:— Rabbi Morris Taxori, Chairman; L. car on an embankment. Fonarow, who was driving the car, was caught Eneeter, Vice Chairman; B. Handler, beneath the steering post and suffered J. Woof son, N. Minkin, A- Conn, L a crashed chest. Passing autoists ex- Goldstein, A.* Marcus, ' A. Silverman, tracted both men from the wreckage S. H. Shaefer, Rabbi Levinson, Mrs. and removed them to, Oakland. ' 33. A. Simon, -Mrs. S. Robinson, Mrs. B Handler, Mrs._ S..Ravitz,'". Dr. A. On Vacation Trip. Romm, I. Stolmaster, J. Robinson, M. Singer and Fonarow left Omaha at Fickle, M. Hurwich, Mrs. M. Hirwich, 9:30 Sunday morning for Chicago. Mrs. A. Maizel,- S. Altschuler, Jake They were on a month's vacation. Robinson, I. Shukert, J. Komawski, Fonarow had boasted before they left Frank Dee. " that he would make Des Moines''by 4 o'clock. The accident occured at BOSTON JEWISH SINGERS 11:30 a. m. CREATE STIR IN VIENNA William and David Singer, brothers of Phil, went to Oakland by Vienna. (J. C. B.) Two Jewish automobile as soon as the family singers from Boston, Mr. Kalish and was notified of his death and re-' his wife Mollie Pichon, are being widely acclaimed since their first apturned with the bodies. Mr. Singer formerly was president pearance in the Roland Theatre where of the mailers' union. He is sur- they sang Jewish " operettes. The vived by his father, a sister, Eose, municipal authorities hero have invitand four brothers, Emil, William, ed both to participate in, a special performance for the benefit of the relief Morris and David. of orphan institutions.in this city. Had Premonition of Death. 1 Fonarow, who operated a tafloi shop at 13055 Douglas" street, pre- POLISH JEWS IN SOVIET RUSSIA dicted his death in a joking manner MUST WATT FOR EVACUATION. Warsaw. , (J. T. A.) It is learned on Saturday, according to Isadora Abrahamson, 2041 North Twentieth on good authority; that the Polish amstreet, who took a suit to the Fona- bassador to Moscow, Philipowitz, has received instructions that in the row shop to be pressed. "Be sure and get this suit today," evacuation of Polish subjects from Abrahamson says Fonarow told him, Soviet Russia to'Poland, p\>les are to "because I'm going on my vacation be given the priority. and I may never come back!" 185 IMMIGRANTS-LEAVE FOR PALESTINE FROM CONJEWS OF JUGO-SLOVAKIA STANTINOPLE. ADOPT UKRAINIAN ORPHANS Constantinople. (J. T. Agency.) On Paris. (J. T. A.) The Jewish July 28, 185 Jewish immigrants in•-' committies of Jugo-Slovakia are concluding 100 Chaluzim and the Hebrew centrating liheir efforts in the in- writers Driyanoff, Ravnitsky, Wilonsterest of the Jewish orphans of Uk- ky, Feierstein, and Simyatitsky left raine. Many - of these have heen here for Jaffa. This-despatch seems adopted by, well-to-do families or to disprove a previous item that implaced in the care of public institu- migration into Palestine from Contions. The; propaganda for the stantinople "had been* stopped. adoption of the orphans is being conducted by the newly organized JewORTHODOX VICTORY IN RIGA. ish World Relief Organization. Riga. (J. T. A.) ;>At the elections for the Jewish community, the OrthoPROPOSE COALITION dox ticket was vicEoriqus. The OrthoGOVERNMENT FOR VDLNA dox Jew, Dublin, was electeed PresiVflna. (J. T. Agency.) The Polish dent of the Kehillah). ; Democrat Party in Vilna hashanded General Zeligowski a memorandum "OBT" TO BRANCH OUT INTO .. opposing the convoking of a parliaWarsaw. (J. C. Bureau.) The ment for Vilna until the status oif Vilna is determined by the League "Ort," an organization seeking to of Nations. The Democrats urge in- settle Jews in agricultural pursuits, stead that a temporary coalition gov- is seeking incorporation in Lodz, Pioternment be formed to include repre- rokov and Czenstochovo (Poland) sentetives of the Lithuanians, Poles, where it is prepared to begin activities immediately. ' Jews and White Russians.

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Cbnstantinople. (J. T. Agency.) Officers and soldiers of Wrangel's AntiBolshevik army are still at large in the Crimean peninsula, according to reports that have reached here from Odessa. Soviet military forces are powerless to prevent their terrorizing the local population. The soldiers operate in marauding bands, feeding en the sparse crops and forcing peasants to vacate their homes so as to provide lodgings for them. Jewish inhabitants in the towns are again the subjects of attacks and pogroms."Near Simeropol and Alushta, twenty Jewish traders were kidnapped. Their whereabouts have not been disclosed. As reports of a possibility of the overthrow of the present Tegime in Russia continue to multiply, thousands of destitute Wrangelists in this city make preparations to return to Russia. Many of them are still armed.

SOVIET RUSSIAN ZIONISTS EN ROUTE TO CARLSBAD Kovno. (J. C. Bureau.) A group of Russian Zionists including Engineer Brutzkus and Epstein have arrived here from Russia. They are on their way to attend the Zionist World Congress. Special permission for their trip was obtained from the Jewish Commissariat. ARABS SEEK TO PROHIBIT ZIONIST ACTIVITIES IN NORTH AFRICA. Paris. (J. T. Agency.) Following the recent anti-Semitic outbursts in Constantine, Algeria, in which native Arabs attacked and killed Jewish inhabitants, Jewish -notables suspecting that the excesses were an expression of anti-Zionist feeling on the part of the Arabs, submitted a memorandum to the Prefect of Tunis declaring Zionism a Utopia and separating themselves from any activity for the movement. As a result of this move, the anti-Semitic Arab press, as well as the French, is appealing to the French government to prohibit Zionist activity in the country. ' THE UNLUCKffiST OF ALL. Rabbi Abraham Ben Ezra was unlucky in everything he attempted. He would laugh dismally and say: "If I became a maker of graveclothes, I believe that people would stop dying; and if I became a candlemaker, I am sure that the sun would begin to .shine by night as well as by day, in order to make me give up the tradel"

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Berlin. (J. T. A.) Count Bernstorff, German Ex-Ambassador to word that his wife and .seven other the United States, will shortly begin children were starring. He came to to publish a daily newspaper in me weeping and asked me to help him. Munich under the name "Sued-DeutI sche Presse." One of the claimed I purchased tickets for them.

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"But just as they received them the purposes of the new publication is to j Secretary Christian Says Chief Executive' Happened to be war broke out and they could n o t j c o m b a t anti-Semitism in Bavaria, Guest a t Same Place As leave the country. Then for three Detroit Manufacturer. from Austria, William Schall, 518 No. years we could not hear from them. Sixteenth street, soon will be joined My brother-in-law was nearly crazy. by &ve of them. ' -' I even interested W. J. Bryan in the The mother and two children died case and he cabled, over there but could not get information. of starvation. . "Near the end of the war we got The five children made the trip tion Modeled Upon of the President in accepting: Henry across the Atlantic ocean, wearing the terrible word that Mrs. Schall had Reserve Syr-tefe. j Ford's invitation to camp together tags, reading "Omaha,, Nebr., U. S. died—of starvation. for a limited' period, has stated thst A." They are now at Ellis Island and The American Jewish Eelief Com- Harding was not Ford's guest but that Two Children Die. will be brought to Omaha by Sam mittee announced yesterday the com- he was visiting the same place where "Some time ago we bought transGoldblatt, son-in-law of M. Fanger, pletion of a new method of adminis- Mr. Ford was camping. portation and sent money to the total who has been aiding Mr. Schall for tering financial aid to the Jews of The Yiddish newspapers, notably the past eight years in getting his amount of $1,900 to bring the seven Poland by an organization modeled children over. Then we got a letter the Jewish Daily News, rejoice at this children out of war-scarred Europe. after the Federal Reserve System of that two of the children, daughter, 19, statement which takes cognizance of Schall came to America about eight banks and backed by capital of and son, 9, also had died of starvation. the view of American Jewry, and reand a half years ago, accompanied by $1,000,000. moves what was looked upon as an "A short time ago the other five three of his ten children. At once he The plan, which has just been affront to Jews who consider that the children got their passports and now solicited the aid of Sir. Fanger, his adopted by the Executive Committee highest oScial of the country ought soon be i brother-in-law in bringing the rest of j t can't wait until the children of the Joint Distribution Committee, not accept the hospitality of a man the family here. it is said, was devised by - a New who has insulted three million citizens get g here," Mr. Schall said Wednesday. York of the United States and raade conSays Case a Sad One. • It grieves me very much that their formation of The Jewish attenapte to blacken the. "This is the saddest case ever mother and the other children won't struction Company of Poland." brought, up in Omaha," Mr. Fanger be with them, but it has to be acceptname. said. In 1913 my fcrother-in-law left ed as one of the tragedies of the great company which will finance destitute i Lemberg, Galkia, with three of Ms war. Many others suffered the came Jewish artisans and small merchants children and came to Omaha. About we have. All we can do is to make in that country. Alexander ' Landesco of Warsaw, the time he arrived here ne received the best of i t "

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Director General of Reconstruction, in conjunction with leading Jews of Poland, worked out the details of tie New York.—"Detailed reporte of organization. Before sailing from the Jewish Welfare Board Seders in New York* several days ago Mr. Manila and Tientsin, China—the first Landesco announced that the com- military Seders ever held in these : I pany would avail itself of the ma- countries—have just been received Boston. < J. T. A.) Jewish .organizations of Boston acting through the chinery and .good-will of the Hebrew by the Jewish Welfare Board . sad . Peoples' Belief Comsnittee met last Loan and Credit Societies, which be- were made public today by Dr. CyniB week to discuss the situation, arising fore the war flourished not only in Adler, chairman of the army a»d Joseph kagaa out of the new law limiting immigra- Poland, but in other Eusian pro- aavy committee." wrote for the Jewish soldiers with tion into the Untied States. It .was vinces. The war reduced the means felt that the work of Jewish organi- of these institutions to such an ex- the CMna expeditionary foi-ce, U S. zations throughout the country'should tent Chat they have been unable to sfemy. centre on a campaign against the render assistance to impoverished "By order of the commanding officontinuation of the law now In ©Sect. Jews for several years. cer, e&eij; company was sent a inemThe Conference decided to get the. co- Mr. Lsndesco took "with Mm $250,-1 ©random, to be posted on the bulletin, in;;- /the to ©pen the new inst&ofuMi ittars, 'Sa'"xpgfird''tSo'""£heise'Ti6fi3ay8. It operation. j Unlte~d' States and together carry en and ihe xenrainder, $770,000, -will Ire stated that all men of Jewish faith Ul~d' S propaganda against making thfe Dil- available, it is announced, when he would be. granted passes from r.oou. lingham Law a permanent one. In requires it. The treasures of the April 22, 1921, to ntfdnight, April 24, the eight months that reinaia for the local credit societies, mil be replen- 1921, and also from noon, April 20, law to operate, the Peoples' Belief So- ished, it is said, through seven dis- 1021, to midnight, May 1, 1921. cieties of Boston will strive to prevent trict federations in Lamberg, Cracow, "We received the case of Matzahs the enactment of a new bill which Warsaw, Brest-Litovsk, Vilna and and the Haggadahs sent by the Jewwould limit immigration into this Rovno. Each district federation, Mr. ish Welfare Board, and these were country for a more extended period Landesco said, will announce its read- distributed among* the men, With than one year. iness to extend a loan of 1,000,009 the co-operation of Chaplain Fisher

London. (Jewish Correspondence Bureau.) In the House of Commons yesterday, Commander Kentworthy asked why • the British censor in Palestine refused • to permit the Jerusalem newspapers to print in full a speech made in P&riiainent on June 14th by Winston ' Churchill, British Minister of Colonial Affairs. Commander KentwofSafe stated that t i e Palestinian censor vttd^geleted parts ..of, Great Britain's policy in Mesopotamia and the Holy Land. - In reply, Under-Secretary of Colonies, Mi". Wood, stated that he had no information on the specific matter mentioned but that in general it was -necessary .to maintain a strict censorship in the country because of the agitated state of mind that prevailed there -at ths present ,time. The censorship, he said, was being maintained • at the expense of Pales- ENGLISH JEWS ATTEMPT TO tine citizens-; and was no burden on WEAKEN ^BALFOUS DECLAthe British tax-payer. RATION.

ARABS AND ZIONISTS TO CONFER London. (J. C. Bureau.) It is stated here that the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization will confer with the Arab Delegation sent by the Palestine Arab Congress to demand from the British Government the withdrawal of its Zionist policy, in an attempt to reach an amicable agreement between tie Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. The delegation is expected here tomorrow, and much interest is being evinced by the British Colonial Office in the proposed conference with the Zionists, where an attempt will be made to arrive at a basis for reconciliation between the two rival elements in the Palestinian population. English Zionists recently appealed to General Smuts to help them effect such a reconciliation.

Arab Delegation Arrives in Home. Paris, (J. C. B.) The Arab delegation sent to Europe to inaugurate a campaign of anti-Zionist propaganda, arrived in Rome recently. The head of the delegation, Musa Kazim Pasha, president of the Arab Congress, issued a statement thanking the Pope for his opposition to Zionism. It is practically certain that the Christian members of the delegation will be received in audience by the Pope and his cardinals.

Anti-Zionist Lords in Constant Communication with Arabs. London. (J. C. Bureau.) It is learned that Lord Lamington and Lord Sydenham, well-known for their opposition to Zioiusnv are in constant communication with certain Arabs residing in London, from whom they obtain material for many questions and sj>eeches_ of criticism against England's policy in Palestine which they have made in the House of Lords.

' London. (J. C. B.) The League of British Jews through, its ex-presidest Claude Montefiore has recently made representations to the British Government with the view of obtaining a re-interpretation of the Balf our Declaration which might weaken its significance. It is learned en good authority that official statements recently made :and amounting to a minimum interpretation of that Declaration are due in some measure to the pressure brought to bear on government departments by Montefiore. of the At the l*st annual League of British Jews, Mr. Claude Montefiore, then its president, announced confidentially that he was making efforts to have the Balfoar Declaration weakened in significance and potential content. , These facts, made public only a short time ago, have engendered bitterness among English Jews, natioaalistically inclined. .

marks to ten loan and trust companies of its district as soon as they can justify being entrusted veiti. working capital. Each district federation will act as the federal reserve bank for ten. local lean and trust companies. The federation will release the funds to each of them according to their current needs; at its discretion it will be able to use the surplus of one of the local branches to fill the deficit of another and will act as the necessary liTiV between them and the reconstruction company or main organization. Long-term loans will be made to individuals at lite rate of 12 per cent per annum, 5 per cent of •which will go toward the payment of the operating expenses of the local loan and trust companies, 2 per cent to the district federation, S per cent to ( the main organization and 2 per cent toward the formation of & reserve fund against possible losses. To these local loan and trust'companies ?700,000 will be allotted, while $300,000, the remainder of the million-dollar capitalization, mil be used in subsidizing co-operative associations. As soon as the system is established in Poland and demonstrates its workability it will be extended, it is said, to include Latvia, Czechoslovakia and other countries of Central Europe.

FURTHER ATTACKS' :ON JEWS. Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Unheard-of excesses against the Jewish population are. taking place in the region of Rurzhanov, Galicia, for the past three weeks, but the Polish police take no measures to quell them. Bands, who remain unpunished," attack Jewish Russian Trade Delegation in homes and rob them cf all their conLondon Denies Pogroms. tents. Jewish passengers sre horribly London. (J. T. Agency.) The Soviet beaten. The Jewish .population has appealed to the official. in authority, Russia Trade Delegation issued a but he has done nothing in answer to statement denying that^any pogroms were made on Jews because of the their appeal. present famine. Recently, there have English Newspaper Defends been rumors that due to the saortage in food, Muzhiks in Samara and other Herbert :SamtieL ' provinces attacked and killed Jews. London. (J. T. A.) Yesterday's isThe Soviet representatives here deny sue of the "Daily" Telegraph" contains the whole story. an article on the occasraa M the end of a year's activity of High-Commissioner Samuel in Palestine, praising his handling of affairs.there. They are especially well pleased with his new interpretation of the Balfour Declaration, and censure the Zionist extremists for criticizing tee .OoQunissioner's position.

UNVEIL MEMORIAL TO TCHLENOV. London. (J. C. B.) On Sunday, a memorial will be unveiled in the London Cemetery in honor of Dr. Jechiel Tchlenov, the Zionist leader who died here several years ago.

and Mr. MeNallr, of the Army Service Club, we arranged for the Seders on April 22 and 23. Everything was strictly "Kosher" and the r&en. observed the holidays ia a most suitable manner. On the mornings of April 28 and 24 we attended eervicei" in the synagogue, which were held by the Jewish community of Tientsin. "As a representative of the Jewish," Welfare Board in this expedition, I want to state that each and every Jewish Koldier appreciates your co-;. operation and courtesy." "Polish-Jewish ^Negotiations For Foreign Consumption Only," Say Jewish Deputies, Warsaw. (J. T. A.) In the Seiia debate on the g-ovemment budget, spokesmen, of the Jewish deputies were not permitteed to participate. They had declared their intentions of attacking the" government for its attitude to the Jewish problenn In a written declaration made in liew of the oral, the deputies Btated thst the Polish government pui^poses to enter into negotiations for an understanding • with •. Jews • only becaase it is desirous thus to impress favorably •democratic elements in Europe and America, The announcements as to negotiations were for foreign, consumption only,, declared the deputies* since they are convinced that the Cabinet has no real and sincere desire ©f arriving-at an agreement and understanding with the Jewish inhabitants of the country.

CONFERENCE OF JEWISH NATIpNAL COUNCILS Warsaw. (Jevdsh T. Agency.) A conference of the Jewish National Councils that exist in Snanj countries in Europe' is • being called »\ Carlsbad for the middle of Septem^ ber. Jewish H&tjonal Cocncils are organizes in Poland, East Galicia, Austria, Czecho-S^vakia and JugoSlovakia. Dr. Leo Motzkin wii! be the temporary chairman. The conference will deal with th« questions of minority rights in East European countries, relief, immigration, and the refugee" problem.


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