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Permanent Orgastation for New Jewish Co|iunity Center Building is Formed at Meeting
•s OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922,
CALLS-HALT TO : PERSECUTIONS
Dr. Walter Rathenau, Foreign Minister of •. Germany, Dies at Hands of Berlin Assassins
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Mamie Idler Victor mGirls Papular Contest
Riga (J. T. A.)—While advices Berlin.—Dr. Walfer Rathenau, Ger- j fortune in the sale of the Edison in- received from various sections of the , who was more candescent lamp in Germany, after ha Ukraine tend to confirm the reports man Foreign Mir any other Ger- had conferred with the American in- that the general famine situation is closely identified man with the effol f or the rehabili- ventor in this country and obtained improving, the situation in other since the war, the Continental rights for the manu- sections appears to continue to be tation of his cot by two or more facture. With his millions from the hopeless. To avoid being devoured was shot and Miss Bertha Beiger a Close Secunknown assassins! while on his way sale of the lamp he organized the by dogs, many famine-stricken ond in the Feature Event. Jews. from his resideneefJSaturday morning greater company for the manufac- people, knowing that death by starvaRepresentations to the-Ministry of ture and sale of electrical appliances tion is imminent, proceed to the to the Foreign Office. OVER 5pO CELEBRATE OMAthe Interior were made-by Jewish The Jewish minister was subjected and machinery of all kinds, with the • cemeteries and there await death. representatives following frequent to a hail of bullets, one of them strik- heaviest . capitalization in Germany, HA HEBREW CLUB ANattacks in the German part of.Upper ing him in the throat and passing and the A. E. G. stretched out its They are thus assured of immediate ' NIVBRSARY. burial. Silesia upon Jewish and Polish shop- upward to the brain, while others agencies all over the world. Prices of bread and provisions have keepers. Miss Mamie Adler was awarded the struck him in various parts of the Rathenau's mental agility carried been gradually falling, due as much most popular girl contest prize at body. Hand grenades also were him to many fields of thought. Those as anything else to relief activities proposed At the meeting,, it A permanent organization of the thrown, almost wrecking the car in who have written, critically of his life of the Jewish organizations. Local the Omaha Hebrew club's thirtieth |new Jewish Community Center was that a Board of Directors be elected, which Dr. Rathenau was riding, and have expressed the opinion that he relief workers are better organized anniversary celebration last Sunday, 5 formed at a meeting held Wednesday twenty members of this body to be inflicting further injuries on him. might have gained fame in any one and trained, which has a telling effect when she" defeated Miss Bertha Berelected by the membership and five |evening at the Blackstone Hotel. Mr. ger in one of the closest popularity The minister was shot and insiantly of three of four fields of work if the on the distribution of relief. fWilliam Holzman presided at the members to be appointed by tho contests that has ever been staged in killed as he was leaving his residence war had not drawn him into public Imeeting. Mr. Harry Lapidus read president. Ballots will be prepared the city. in Grunewald, a suburb of Berlin, for service and politics. |the minutes,of the previous meeting and sent to all subscribers. J. J. Freidman Won Over Max Frqm- the Foreign Officein an automobile. While the world was shaking with It was reported tjaat to date fheld several weeks ago, at which kin for Vice-Pweident. It has been established by the police the war, Rathenau was still writing |Morris Levy gave his gift of $50,000 $125,000 had been raised for a new that the shots were fired by two per- books on iphilosophy, elaborating beJewish Community Center building. INSTALLATION TO "BE HELD I towards a new building. sons in a strange automobile, and that liefs and opinions he had formed earTHIS EVENING. The officers elected are William Harry B. Zimman, chairman of the they used automatic, pistols. Chief of lier in his experience and apparently Holzman, president; Harry A. Wolf, campaign will begin active work imAt a meeting of the Omaha Lodge Police Richter personally is conduct- seeking some way out of the chaos. Advises All Persons to Boycott Peri'vice-president; Harry H. Lapidus, mediately toward raising the $300,One book, "Von kommenden Dingen," of the B'nai B'rith held last Thursday ing the investigatiwi odicals. secretary; • LOUIB Kirshbraun, treas- 000 building fund. printed also in English, ran into more evening at the Jewish Community Six Shots Firdi at Minister. All those present at the first meetlurrer. The officers named and the than 65 editioris^aHd others were alCenter, David Greenberg, former viceSix shots were fired and one hand TO CANCEL HIS BEQUEST IMfollowing will comprise the Board ing attended the meeting last night. president of the lodge, was elected grenade was thrown' as the murder- most as widely read. "Impressions," MEDIATELY. of Trustees: J. Simon, H. Monsky, 'ollowing are the names of those "Reflections," "Criticism of the Era" president for the ensuing term. er's car passed Drj|Rathenau's auto- and other books by him were generalN. P. Feil, L Ziegler, Dr. P. Sher, that were present at the meeting: In a spirited contest for the office mobile slowly, according to one acBen Tatle, Dr. N. Mushkin, H. MalCleveland. (J. T. A.) Mr. Alfred M. Kulakofsky, H. B. Zimman, M. of vice-president for the' ensuing count. The assassination occured in ly read and were credited by savants Benesh, a well known local lawyer, ashock, H. Rubenstein, L. Simon, M. Levy, Leo Rosenthal, A. B. Alpirn, with having a wide influence upon the the Place Royale, close to the Rathe- German mind. and vice president of the Cleveland ivingston, H. Wilinsky, J. J. GreenSam Wertheimer. nau villa. ' berg, M. Milder, A. Theodore, C. C. Rathepau was of large stature, be- Lodge of the Order of B'nai B'rith, Dr. Rathenan, who was unmarried, ing nearly 6 feet 4 "inches tall. TTig is in receipt of a letter from James Katelman, Leo Rosenthal, H. A. used alternately as a residence, his resemblance of Lenin in features was Platt White cf Williamstone, Mass., Wolf, Win. Grodensky, Dave Greentown house-in Gninewald and the of- noticed by many persons who had in which he severely criticizes the atberg, Max Fromkln, Izzy Rosenthal, ficial villa situated i u the garden ad- seen both meni titude taken by Harvard University B. Zimman, H. H. Lapidus, Si S. joining the Foreign Office. He also towards Jewish students. Mr. White, Jacobs, H. Monsky, S. M. Levy, D. He was immensely wealthy and the Three Hundred Emigrants From Feder, Dave Blumenthal, A. Rosenhad a country seat'at Freinwald, not value of all the Rathenau interests who is a Harvard g-a'luate of the - Soviet Russia Facing Diffifar from Berlin ;i blum, H. Rachman, J. C. Pepper,~Dr. before the war was' placed in some class- of 1900, writes: cult Circumstances. P. Sher* N. Yaffee, E. Fleishman, "Many Gentile graduates wQl stand The Foreign-Mfnister was a guest estimates at' $1,000,000,000. One -MAMIE ADLER John Feldman, Abner Kaiman, J. J. at dinner Friday night of Alanson B. story was that neither he nor his ad- behind you in the fight against the Constantinopel. (J. C. B.) By Mail.) Freidman, Dave Gross, S. H. Schaefer, pettifogging slovishness of n&i rowHoughton; the American Ambassador. visers knew the exact size of the for. Miss Berger was leading the .field —Emigration from Soviet Russia is S. Kirshbraun, N. P. Feil, H. H. On receiving news of the assassina- tune and that, when it came time to minded yulgafions who dare commit in obtaining-the largest number of continuing under very difficult cir- Auerbach, Chas. LevinjgQR, J. B. tion the American Embassy promptly pay income taxes his lawyers^told, the such a/caddish act in en institution voias^-at the• picnic,: but-workere for cumstances. For the last six months Robinson, Henry . Rosenthal, Wm. hoisted its flag te half-mast. jM>V°TTVn*riTt sfnyrtd;ifTTpf\i!fa tf> t tf o r , ^ i t g o of great, traditions. I have.a library Miss Adler had gathered enough v^tas 1,381. iiew .^arrivals _frpm Soviet Bns-Among" fiie- nreinoersr oF flie -govern- over'the books juff&l^rminV the ex- of modern drama, the most complete on-the" outside to put their canHelzman,. Ju sialiave been' registered in the offices which I had bequeathed didate across. • Miss Adler won in?ttte ment the word that Dr. Rathenau had act amount to "be paid._ of the Jewish Refugee Aid Com- E. Meyer, J/. Gross; University. I will now by forty-four votes. Miss Adler to Harvard been assassinated came as a stunning He had visited the United States mittee, of whom about 300 have no ZIONISTS EXCOMMUNICATED BY blow. Several of the ministers who many times and it-ifcas reported that cancel the bequest, as I have no dedefinite destination, while the remainsire to give my much loved collection CHASSIDIM IN CHECHO- r... had been awaiting the Foreign Minis- his hi admiration di der is bound, for various countries, f or j2 2 ^^ hc U e Ut ^ f to an institution trying to compete SLOVAKIA. ter's arrival for the cabinet meeting such: as Palestine, the United States, the large bujldingif. via;—&iis c'onSfry Prague. (J.~ C. B.—By jnaiL) burst into tears and the meeting was caused the kaiser and other Germans with Henry Ford." Argentine, etc. Permission to land for In conclusion, Mr. White urges a abandoned. them inust be1 obtained on arrival and Thanks to the - energy displayed - by to make changes in the building or- boycott of all Harvard periodicals. DAVID GREENBERG the Zionists, their field of influence Walter Rathenau was born neai they are sometimes detained on board dinances in Berlin. Rathenau said ships for several days until they, are is rapidly growing and can be felt in term, J. J. Freidman defeated Max Berlin September 29, 1867, of Jewish that it would be necessary to build a every phase -of Jewish life in the able to land. Lafely the Interallied Fromkin for the office. Freidman parents. After attending the gym- new Berlin on the roofs of the old nasium he went to the Charlottenburg city to accommodate the growth. authorities hive adopted a rigid at- Chechoslovak .Republic. But it is very was victor by eleven votes. Technical College, and later took titude in connection with the granting interesting to note that some Jewish Harry Trustin, Dr. M. Grodinsky, His restoration of the castle built of landing permission for Jewish circles, . particularly the Chassidic, and Dr. Nathan Dansky were elected many advanced degrees at the uni- in 1799 for Queen Louise of Prussia stand firmly against the cultural acrefugees and the French authorities trustees. Abner Kaiman was elected versities in Strassburg and Berlin, was reported to be intended as a gift especially have categorically refused tivities of the Zionists because of guardian. The officers will be in- where he distinguished himself by his for the empress, but he lived in it Say it Gives Jewg Too Great Reference Over Arabs and Natives. to allow refugees to land in Constan- some disagreements in religious views. stalled this evening at the regular scholarship. He studied philosophy, himself. The work of restoration tinople. Their argument is that the Protests and-declarations are made on meeting. Following the installation physics, chemistry and engineering, was done in great detail. He used London.—The Earl of Balf our made refugees are of Russian. nationality both sides and we cite here a recent of officers, the lodge will suspend becoming also an accomplished lineven the old candlesticks, inserting his first speech in the House of Lords occurrence in -Bardijov, Slovakia. The guist. and that therefore the Russian Con with the meetings for the remainder his own modern electric bulbs into in circumstances of uncommon intersulate (a remnant of Wrangel's.gov Chassidim of this" city, embittered Of the summer. When he was 26 years old he orthem. The castle is at Freienwalde- est with an unfortunate result The against the Zionists because of a eminent) must undertake the neces ganized a corporation to promote one sport club which the latter recently an-der-Oder. die hards did not treat him kindly sary, steps. It is self-understood tha of his own methods for extracting alZANGWILL CRITICIZES organized, excommunicated all of the During the war Rathenau was cred- and the Government was defeated 60 no Russian official would ever under kalis and works for the purpose were ZIONIST POLICY OF ited with great ingenuity in providing to 29. He had to reply to a motion take to intervene on behalf of Rus- members of the local Zjonist organizaBRITISH GOVERNMENT built in France, Switzerland and Po- war materials, stripping metal roofs tion. When the attention of the Suby Lord Islington condemning its sian Jewish refugees. As a nexample London. (J. C. B.) Israel Zang- land, as well as in Germany. Unof the great difficulties which are be- preme Rabbi in Prague, Dr. Henry will made the following statement to doubtedly he had his father's help in off houses, melting' church bells into mandate of Palestine on the ground —Photo by Hern in gencouraged here it must be state Brody, was called to this, he declared the Jewish Correspondence Bureau: the organization of this first enter- cannon, contriving substitutes for cot- that it violated the pledges given by BERTHA BERGER in an open letter that' this was an ton and nitrates, and accomplishing the Government to the people of Palthat a transport of 24 refugees from "The vote of the House of Lords, prise. Odessa is now being detained here act of fanaticism and intolerance and other feats to supply the armies. estine and was opposed to the wishes was awarded' the first prize trip Emil Rathenau had first made a while not exercising dirept governand, so far^ all steps that have been he also publicly" denounced them. of th^ majority of that people and to Yellowstone National park. As a Meanwhile, the;Zionists in Bardijov mental power, cannot but strengthen undertaken to obtain landing have that therefore its acceptance by the result'of the" large number of votes HOUSE OF COMMONS TO REDEEM SYNAproved unsuccessful. The situation of were not inactive.' They_printed bonds the hands of the many enemies of ZiT council of the League of Nations that were obtained by the candidates, WILL DECIDE PALESTINE GOGUE VALUABLES the refugees on board cannot be de- for large and* small-amounts and de- onism. It will even be welcomed by should be postponed until it was mod- Miss Bertha' Berger was awarded a QUESTION JULY 4iTH Berlin. (J. T. A.) Ben Zion Kate, scribed, in Wbrds and they must'ab- clared that they would pay all of their the British Cabinet, which has long ified by being made to comply with trip to Chicago and return. Austen Chamshown signs of reducing the Balfoir London. (J. C. B.) a Jewish journalist, left for Moscow, solutely be brought to shore to be duties towards the "Jewish community the pledges given by the Government During" the aftrenoon a large-prowith these whether" the " duties be" Declaration to a minimum. The vote where he will negotiate with the So- berlain, replying to a question by cared for. There was a select but not large gram was given, at which Mr. Henry taxes, beneficial works, or what. The will help save the face of the Cabinet. viet-Government in behalf of a group Johnson-Hicks, declared that Church- gathering of peers to hear Lord Bal- Monsky "reviewed-the history" of th« No reference is made in Balfour's ill will defend ithe, policy of the Govof rich Jews for the purchase of the Spotted fever is rampant amongst most interesting part of it is, that four address the House for the first dub, since-its* founding here, thirty the new arrivals. As the refugees are the Zionist secretary Jn Bardijov, ac- statement that the Mandate was as- valuables of synagogues recently con- ernment on the Palestine Mandate time. and the Rutenberg concession on July years ago. The evening was spent not subject to strict hygienic control, cepting these bonds in payment, with- signed to England by virjue of her fiscated by the Soviet authorities. There was a select, but not large dancing. undertaking the creation of a Jewish 4th. and especially as no proper quaran- holds 5 per -cenfci of the amounts in Britain the.responsibility of the trustine statiorts are in existence, there behalf of the Zionist' funds and that National Home in Palestine, or that SITUATION IN RUSSIA IMteeship for a Zionist political pre- RATHENAU MAKES BEQUESTS Jews throughout the worid -pressed is great risfcj of the disease taking. the Chassidim of Bardijov, as this PROVED, DR. BOGEN DECLARES LINDENFELD TO BE dominance where 90 per cent, of the for such assignment. The opposition TO JEWISH INSTITUTIONS created a critical financial situation » : RELEASED 6 N BAIL population was non-Zionist The mangreater proportions. Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Dr. B. Bospeeches, on the other hand, show.no in thelocal community} did not protest Berlin.. ( J , T . A.) Walter RatheWarsaw. (J. T.- A.) The police ire date, he said, was a distortion of the gen arrived here from Russia. Hereintention of surrendering Palestine, against this arrangement. nau, it is Jearned,t,has included in his fuses to give information on condisaid to be contemplating the release AMALGAMATION OF TWO mandatory system. A small proporwhich was obtained under this. pretions in Russia, but declares that the under heavy'-baSl of JHarry Lindenfeld, tion of the population would be given last will and ^testament a number of tence. Zionist leaders cry that nothME|BOURNE CONADVISES ITALIAN general situation is improved. He left notorious agent,*whose alleged con- preferential treatment, he declared, bequests to .Jewish institutions. ing is wanted save money, whereas it GREGATIONS PROPOSED An interesting detail has been made GOVERNMENT. TO SUPPORT for Moscow. fession of Ms complicity in the Wall and British authority was to enforce T ANTI-ZIONIST CAMPAIGN was first necessary to obtgin a' solid known, testifying to the deep interMelbournfe* (J« C. B. By Mail.) Street bomb o^trage' stirred the po- the system. The mandate, he assertpolitical foundation. If th|ij; were seest f and ^knowledge which Rathenau Considerablerinterest is being aroused Rome. (J. T." A,) *The Italian palice of two" continents.' REPORTS CONVERSION OF cured, money would then come of ited, would give rise to the most bitter had of Jewish1" matters. When grownhere at the ;propbsal to amalgamate per, "Momento," in Turin advises the RABBI TO CHRISTIANITY; self." ; hostility on the part of Arabs. ; two senior* • Melbourne synagogues. Italian Government -to support the up, he studied the Talmud in Hebrew HEBREW CHRISTIANS JEWISH MI?fiSTE£ DE- , . Mr. Zangwil! conculded his stateThe schema is an outcome of the fi- anti-Zionist campaign. , If • "Agland with the help of a "Yeshivah BoLondon. (J. T. A.) The Reverend ment by saying: "The Zionist leadFENDS' VATICAN INTERESTS PEASANTS AND JEWS VICnancial difficulties of the two co and France will evacuate the Orient,cher." • • ers have surrendered principles to su- Carpenter, head of the Mission in PoTIMS OF ROBBER BANDS London. < J . C B.)\SenatorSchenitions and the fact that as at Italy will replace them and thus gain Rathenau will be buried in the famland, reports that a Rabbi and his zer, ItalyVFoi|*ign Minister, arrived gg perficial successes." I M Berlin, June 28. < j . T. A.) PeasIslam's sympathy, says the paper. family have been converted to Chris- in London-in order to press for the ants as well as Jews have suffered ily mausoleum on* the Jewish ptes*§fit divided neither can afford to tianity. Bishop Bury has -baptized 26 inclusion into, thetMandate of clauses at the hands of "insignificant" robber tery at Schoenhauserallee.' ;*"... support a qualified Rabbi and ChaCONGRESS OF JEWISH I JEWS ASKED TO GIVE Jews in Warsaw and established a safeguarding and, protecting Catholic bands operating in the Ukraine and zan/The position in which Melbourm COMMUNITIES INi PRUSSIA I2,0ao-POIJNP6 SILVER community of ^'Hebrew Christians" in interests in Palestine. Jewry finds itself is a serious one. White Russia, a dispatch of the Jew- RUTENBERG NOT A BOLSHEVIK J Berlin. (J. T. A.) Theffirst' ConRiga. < J. T.- A.) Asked to surLondon. (J. C. B.) , Winston that city, it was further reported. There is only one synagogue that is ish Public Committee in Moscow to The "Sunday^ Times'? . points out render 310 puds (about12,400 poundjri gress of Jewish Communities in PrusChurchill,, replying to" an interpolafully equipped and that is St. Kilda. its Berlin office declares, replying to that is rather peculiar that it must of silver byfurther "stripping the syn- sia was -opened here with-about 300 One of the elder congregations had agogues of their valuables,' the Jew- delegates representing about 500 com- GERMANS RIOTING be a Jew-who takes up the cudgels the request of the latter for a full in- tion in the.House of Commons, deneither Chazan or Rabbi. IN UPPER SILESIA for the Vatican. (Remark by J. C. vestigation of reported atrocities. The clared that although he was no tin a munities ' attending. Representatives ish representatives^informed M. "B The general feeling is that the kayev, chairman- of the Petrograd of the government welcomed the conBerlin. (J. T. A.) Martial law B.: Senator. Schanzer, while in Wash- reply in full states: "Our reports position to /give a biography of. Pinamalgamation is impossible. There vention, promising that the Governhas been proclaimed in the towns of ington .at the,Disarmament Confer- show that only insignificant robber chas Rutenberg, he could assure the ^Corifiscatfon ,.;of bands are involved. Peasants have House of Commons that Rutenberg is a general view that the East Mel- Commission . Church Treasures, that it is impossi- ment would subsidize the Association Ratiboi and Oberglogau, following ex- ence, stated to the correspondent of also been robbed. The whole section, was an anti-Bolshevik. bourne Hebrew Congregation, whose the J. C.-B. that he belonged to the of Prussian Kehillahs. The conven- tensive rioting.by pan-Germans in the ble for them to meet the demand. and members are chiefly immigrants from tion decided to establish a permanent German part of Upper Silesia, during Catholic. persuasion.; Mr.. Schanser is has been absolutely quiet of late nt steps have been taken t^ f H"!? Renew., your, subscription to "The Europe, requires a Chazan; what the Nearly every Jewish family ,ln association of all Jewish Communities which shops owned by Jews and Poles j indeed, of. Jewish-origin, but ther outbreaks." Bourke Street: Congregation requires Omaha reads "Jhe Jewish Press", of Prussia. i Jewish jPres*-. ^ ",. ' j -_ were plundered. - \ Self baptixed.£ ; is a lecture*. . - - .-"
Officers Elected and Executive Committee or Board of Trustees Appointed for New Jewish Community Center.
Warsaw (J. T. A.)—The Minister of the Interior att Kattowitzf having had his intention drawn to articles of an inciting nature appearing, in the press, has issued an order to ,the police chiefs of Upper Silesia calling for a halt in further excesses upon
FOLLOWING MEETING IT WAS REPORTED P THAT $125,000 HAD BEEN RAISED
David Greenberg New President of Local Lodge of B'nai B'rith
Gentile Harvard Graduate Demands Boycott o? Harvard Periodicals
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