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JEWISH AGENCY AGRELiM RATIFIED BY 16thlORLD ZIONIST CONGRSS AT ZURICH; FORM GQAIinftN EXiPlVE Stirring Scenes Mark Closing of Historic jSessions; Palestinian Songs Sung As ' • , Tension Breaks - ^
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929
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RESOLUTION CRITICIZES BRITISH RULE^ Zurich, Switzerland.—(J. T. A.)—Insuring itsniche in Jewish history by its ratification of the extended Jewish Agency plan, the Sixteenth Zionist Biennial Congress adjourned heffr-Sunday morning at 9 o'clock after an all night session whidi lasted 12 hours. In the early hours of the morning, the composition of the new Executive which, had deadlocked the conference for several days was accomplished with the formation of a coalition executive containing'.'two Mizrachi and two.laborite leaders asvwell ts thead. ministration party representatives. The announcement, breaking at last the tension which had obtained for several days was greeted by an outburst of Palestinian songs. The singing began in the
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New York. (J,T. A.)! During the fiscal year,. Jnly 1, 1928; to JunelSO, 1929, there, arrived ia - tha- United States-15,836 Jews, from practically all parts of the- world; 12,479 -of Interviews Soviet Leaders and these were immigrants ? and 3,407 Visits Various Jewish non-immigrants. These figures;..-were Districts published by the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society,- based on SAY BID JAN PLAN ONLY official information from Washing" HOPE FOR UNEMPLOYED ton.
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JUDGE H. 10ADDRESS OMAHA _ HEBREW CLUB SUNDAY
Picnic Plans Are Announced; Palestinian labor group and spread' • Spend $500 to Make rapidly-through the hall, inspiring, a Event Success feeling of friendship and amity among all the delegates regardless of party differences as the historic Congress TO GIVE AWAY 75 PRIZES came to a dramatic close. Hon. Herbert Rhoades, judge of After a long siege of impassioned the district court, will be the prinoratory on the part of advocates and All Factions Unite in. Appeal cipal, speaker at the meeting ot the opponents of the Jewish Agency, the. Omaha. Hebrew- dub Sunday afterFor Parliamentary pact creating this new instrument of noon, August 18, at 3:30, P. M. Hits Palestinian supervision was finally Investigation subject will be. "Ancient Land; passed its third reading by a vote of •..-.,- : % KISCH, YELMNRETURN marks»" 230 to 30. • Musical entertainment will also be Morris Ebthenberg, vice-president Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The House provided by the Wagoun sisters, of the Zionist Organization of Ameri- of Commons will be.asked to send a Millie and Bessie, popular song arca, lead the administration's defense p^ parliamentary p y commission of tists, and by Saia BaekFish, pianist. of the Agency, while: Dr. Stephen S. inquiry ,to Jerusalem to survey andd According to Sam &laver, general ; : Vladmir'-JabotinEkyf' and vari- reportcton*theitniesiioTias <:involved ;in iiairman-rof:;4be-aimual picnic to;-be ous Mizfachi, labpri and revisionist the controversy between the Jews arid held ,it r iikeview park Sunday, spokesmen expressed violent objec- Moslems in Palestine over"the West- August 25, this year's^icnic will fW tions or misgivings over-the proposed ern Wall- of the .Temple, commonly surpass any o f the previous, ones. plan. .--•": known as the Wailjng Wall. A re- He stressed particularly theVmerit of The new World Zionist Executive, commendation tp-tliJB ^effect was the location, stating that "the site the first-coalition body for some years, adopted, at an all-Palestine Jewish was the most beautiful and conr was composed of the following: conference held here under the chair- venient ever used for this occasion? Dr. Chaim Weizmann, London, pres- manship of Dr.* Joseph Klausner, For those taking a street car to the ident; Louis Lipsky, New York; Dr. author of- "Jesus of Nazareth" pro- picnid, an ample number! of autoSelig Brodetsky,. Professor at the fessor, at the Hebrew .University in mobiles will be on hand at 16th University of Leeds; Harry Sacher, Jerusalem. and Locust streets to transport them Jerusalem; Col. Frederick H. J£isch, Group and .party ^differences of the from the street car to the park Jerusalem; Miss Henrietta Szold, various sections of the Jewish popula- grounds. The road from, this point to formerly of New York now of Jeru- tion in Palestine were forgotten and the park.is nearly all paved, accordsalem; Dr. Arthur Ruppin, Jerusalem? various committees, formed by Jews ing to Mr. Klaver. . =. Felix Rosenblueth, London, all Gener- for the protection- of their right of Considerable interest Is being al Zionists; Laborites: Joseph Sprinz- access to the Wailing Wall were rep- evinced in the ticket selling contest. ak, Jerusalem and S. Kaplansky, Jeru- resented at th,e conference. Even the. So far, Jake Riklin, president, John salem; Mizrachi, Orthodox- Zionists, ultra-Orthodox group of JeruBalem Feldman and Albert Kaplan are Lazarus Barth, Germany, and Rabbi which is at loggerheads with the se- competing desperately for the honors, Meyer Berlin, president of the Miz- cular Zionists, joined in this action. being far in advance of the other rachi Zionist Organization, formerly salesmen. An Executive committee.was chosen of New York and now of Jerusalem. and charged with the task of issuing The picnic, marking the 8§th year The ultimatum:of the American del- appeals to. the nations of the world of the organization, wjll be held from egation demanding 44 seats on the and to Jewry throughout the world, I P . M. to jnidnight. The day will Jewish Agency Council to be formed setting forth the danger threatening be, spent in - various kinds .of games, instead of the 10 which they were the rightof - the Jejwg to /worship be- contests, and other amusements. One 4 allotted, threatened to disrupt the fore the remant of the Temple, a priv- of the feature will be free dancing, Congress for some time, but -the Am- ilege undisputed elncd the tune of the for .which; CarlLambV orchestra has ericans finally consented to be satis- Roman emperors. A fund - to finance been engaged; -A total of 75 prises fied with a compromise giving them a this action will be raised. The com- win be given away including prizes total of 18 seats. The additional 8 mittee is also to take under advise- to the prettiest -girl*the "best? exseats were "those left vacant by the ment a proposal to send a special dele- ponents of various types of Iraflroom Revisionist Wing which refused to gation of Palestine Jews to. London^ dancing, etc. participate in the Agency. , -According to Mr. Slayer,approxr : : • " V . . '. * ' • V > - , ' - • < • ' - < . ' • ' The British administration of Palimately $500 is; being spent in order London.—(j, T. A'.)—-Col. jprederick estine, under the terms of the Manto insure the success of the picnic, date of the League of Nations, impos- H. Kisch. and Dr.-.payid Y^llin who ' Another feature of the' event will ofing upon it the obligation to create conferred with British gpyerament r be' a concert by Father Flanagan's such political and economic conditions ficials pn-Qie qqe5tSqri pfthe^,Wa3in^ Boys' Band. ' Wall in behalf of t h | 2iqafet; i&ongress in the country as wilLfnrther the esZ i 2h; i 2 ? ' tablishment of- the ^Jewish National t d t Home there, was charged with continBefore^s departure JQ$L 33sch toldC. H. SQBOTKER STORE READY FOSL FALL TRADE uing its "passive attitude" toward the the Jewish, tTelegrap&|p. Agetfcy corneeds and the development of the Jew- respondent thai Dr. Yellin and he had Adorned with a neat hew 65-foot ish National Home in a resolution: completed their- mission as far as was: front and filled with a new and full unanimously adopted at the Congress. possible on the London end. They line of the latest styles in men's apExamining the report of the Zionist were also received by the High Com- parel, the C. H. Sobotker and Sons Executive, it becomes obvious, the re- missioner of Palestine, Sir John store is now ready for its fall trade, solution states, that the Palestine gov- Chancellor, who is now on a visit to according to its managers, Messrs. ernment has fulfilled but a few of the L o n d o n . . -••_,'—:;.:., . ;", : Abe Milder and Fred'Meyer* demands expressed by the Fifteenth The Jewish Telegraphic Agency unThe remodelling which Was recentZionist Congress which met two years derstands that the delegation endeav- ly finished was done by the A, H. ago in Basle. The resolution expres- ored to secure p I^ppeninp of-the en- Brbdkey.Construction company. ses the view that the London authori- tire;Wailing tyall^rolrfeni go that 3t HADASSAH TO \ ties have a favorable attitute" toward may be .settled in accordance with the HOLD THEATER PARTY the development of the Jewish- Na- terms of the Mandate, By permitting tional Home in Palestine but much of the Moslems, to renew their work at The local Junior Hadassah will this goodwill and willingness to co- the Wall, which includes the opening hold the next of their summer operate; is 'lost on the way from Lon- of a door to the other end of the Wall, monthly gatherings in the form of a don to Jerusalem, The Palestine the Jewish rights of undisturbed wor- theater T?arty at the Paramount authorities,' -_sh&ve,' the resolution ship are .being infringed upon as the theater, -Thursday evening, August Charges, . . _ _ „ . _Committed acts which' ex- opening of the blind passage will tarn 22, at 7 p. m. Following the theater, pressly are contrary to the most vit- the place into a public road. the group will- all go to the Peacock al interests of the Jewish population Inn. It carries, too. great an imputain Palestine and Tiave permitted ocMiss Esther Weinberg is chairman " currences which offended the dignity tion of ignorance,"lightness or folly of the, arrangements committee and for men to. quit and renounce their of the Jews of Palestine, causing is assisted by Misses Ella. Marcus, former tenets • presently • upon the • ^rief and sorrow to the sixteen, million Jews throughout the world. The offer of an argument which they Edna Cohn, Ann Bishon* and' Rose cannot immediately ahswei>-Lbcke. Levine. (Continued on Page 2)
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Berlin. (J. T. A.) An American philanthropist who desires to remain anonymous placed at the disposal of Dr. Max Gerson of Bielefeld, discoverer of a new cure for tuberculosis through rigid diet, a considerable sum for t i e erection of a Rigid Censorship of News Dispatches Enforced by sanatorium at Wilhelmshoehe. Government Officials Who Deny Excesses; A corporation with a capital of 900,000 marks has been formed and Jewish Editor Imprisoned the city of Cassel has promised its financial aid in the project. Dr. Gerson, who was derided and mocked HOOLIGANS TEAR UP TORAHS at during the experimental period of his cure, has now gained world-wide Berlin—(J. T. A.)—A reign of terror marked by murderous recognition, when observations made attacks and aided and abetted by government and local officiate, is in the clinic of Prof. Sauerbruch plunging the Jews in Lithuania into the depths of despair accordproved the value of Dr. Gerson's ing to reports received here from secret but reliable sources. A findings.
Moscow.—(J. T. A.)—The Soviet Government's view•- of Jewish conditions in Russia was presented today to James Marshall, son of Louis Marshall, who is making a tour of Russia. - In a conversation which lasted an hour M. Kalinin, President of the rigid government censorship maintained in Lithuania precludes the Soviet Republic, described Jewish conpossibility of exposing the outrage to public opinion, especially editions to Mr. MaTshali;~laying parwith the guilty ones sending out denials of any such conditions. ticular emphasis on the Bira-Bidjan The editor of the "Yiddish Stimme" in Kovno, after the censors project, soon to become a Jewish rehad repeatedly deleted all articles referring to the incidents, printpublic and a member, of the Soviet ed an article hinting at the time state of affairs, and was promptly Union. The Jews, he said, satisfy imprisoned for his act. themselves with very little, requiring ' • The outbreak of rabid anti-Semitism only a means for a livelihood, while Charge British Using Jewish has been instigated by the Lithuanian he thinks they ought to increase their peasants to Enslave Fascists and the villianous followers national cultural demands. To meet Arabs of the group stop at nothing in their the all-round Jewish demands the depreciations. Murders have been comBira-Bidjan idea-was originated, Mr, COMPARE COLONIZATION mitted, hundreds have been beaten inKalinin, stated, adding tfiat Bira- Bidjan is the only place where the Jewi Moscow.—(J. T. A.) — Coincident Hope Expressed That All Jewish { to critical conditions and property becan develop not only economically bux with the holding of the Zionist Conlonging to Jews has been ravaged inWomen Will Now Aid as a nation with an independent cnl« gress in Switzerland, the attacks discriminately by the marauders. In Cause ture. In other places in Russia whei* against Zionism in Soviet Russia have each case the police have either aided Jewish colonization is. conduted, this i» become intensified. the hooligan* openly, or else have reW. I. Z. O. MEETS IN ZURICH impossible, he said, because other na« A group of Communist Jewish] fused to take action against them, retionalitdes reside there. The Bidjan peasants in White Russia issued a proZurich—(J. T. A.)—A world conporting the incidents as the work of project is a guaranteed success if clamation addressed to the •"Jewish foreign funds and technical aid will be peasants of Palestine," declaring they gress of Jewish women for the pur- unknown robbers, and frequently igpose of aiding the work of rehabilitainvested there, he continued. are being utilized by the Zionist tion in Palestine will be called by the noring them altogether, According t« :; Mr. Marshall also spoke with A. agents of British imperialism in order Women's International Zionist Organ- statements made by a number «f th* Meiezhirn leader: of'1'tke Ozet^and. -te-"; suppress the " Arab" peasants. ization, the Conference of the organi- victims, when police were approached Peter Smidovitch, vice-president of "Standing on the shoulders of the Pal- zation meeting- - here decided. The for "protection, they refused stating the Soviet Union. estinian Jewish peasants, the blood- Congress 'will be held in all proba- that they .had orders not to prevent * Following the interview, Mr. Marsh- thirsty British lion pursues his colon- bility next year and in all likelihood pogrom. all stated to the correspondent of the ial policy to enslave the Arabs," the in Palestine, according to Mrs. A. J. In the town of Jacobova, hooligans Jewish Telegraphic Agency that .he proclamation declares." Freiman of Ottawa, Canada, who is fell upon the synagogue, seized the was much . impressed following his The "Ernes," Communist Yiddish the originator of the idea. Mrs. Freitalks with Mr. Kalinin, Mr. Smido^ daily, also attacks the Zionist move- man, who is now in Zurich, where she Holy Scrolls, tore them into scrap* vitch and Mr. Merezhin and with his ment and draws a comparison between took a prominent part in the delibera- and threw the remnants away. In Kovno, the capital of Lithuania, first visit to the Jewish colonies in Jewish colonization in Russia and in tions of the Zionist Congress, in an Crimea. He also surveyed the Jewish Palestine. Whereas Jewish coloniza- interview with the correspondent of where the excesses have reached their small towns, visiting a number in the tion in Palestine is created to counter- the Jewish Telegraphic Agency stated peak, an English citizen, unable to enthe Eights of misery and sufferBelotzerkov, Kiev and Odessa dis- act the Arabs, states the "Emes," the that she is happy that the Women's dure 1 ing where numbers of Jews were lyInternational Zionist Organization has tricts. Jewish colonization in Russia serves • * * as a bridge for internationalism and decided to convoke such a. Congress ing bleeding- and battered in the •which she is confident will be of con- streets, tried to prevent further uotMoscow.—(J. T. A.)—One half mil- cooperation among the nations. ting but was forestalled when the siderable benefit to Palestine. lion Jews will remain unemployed five Every Jewish colony in Palestine is police intervened to protect the bandyears from now even after the most only another trench in the war beThe visit, Mrs. Freiman believes, its. He immediately made s comsuccessful utilization of the five year tween the Jews and the Arabs. Every will stimulate interest in the country plan, according to which 400,000 Jews new Jewish position in Russia serves among the delegates who will return plaint before the British consul at are supposed to find employment in the international brotherhood, it says. to their own lands imbued with an Kovno. One of the many incidents that have industry and agriculture in Russia. enthusiasm that can be transformed stricken e cold fear into the hearts of This statement was made by A. -Merinto practical benefits. She stated the. Jewg wae the release by the police ezhin in reply to a statement by J. that she hopes Canada alone will send of a truck-driver who had killed m Larin, against whom a resolution was between 500 and 600 women delegates Jewish woman while driving his truck adopted by the Comzet, Government to such a conference. She expressed intoxicated. His defense which was department for Jewish land settlethe belief that it will be possible to accepted by the police was that it wag ment, because of his criticism of the Paris.—(J. T. A.)—The present decharter s special steamer for the not a crime to kill a Jew. Bira-Bidjan colonization project. velopments in Jewish life, centering Canadian and American delegates. Thirty-six Jewish boys and girle "Mr. Larin is not justified in oppos- around the formation of the Jewish Mrs. Freiman stated further that were sentenced to two months in ing the Bidjan project on the basis of Agency with its promise of an allan. opinion that within ten years 600,- Jewish unity for Palestine, kindled the Women's Congress may be able to prison by the military commandant 000 _ Jews will jfind work in industry the. imagination of an anonymous point the way to the World Zionist on the trumped-up charjre that they and agriculture. Even with the most pamphleteer who hides behind the nom Congress of the advisability and prac- had assembled on the premises of ticability of holding a Congress in Pal- their society without a permit. optimistic opinion that one-half mil- de plume of Ish Yahudi. estine which will be of a non-political The excesses reached a culmisatMn lion Jews will be employed within five character. The World Women's Con- when, last Friday nigrfet, armed FasThousands of eppies of a leaflet years, I ask what will become of the remaining half-million who even Larin which bears the inscription; "Com- gress, as she visualizes it, vrill be non- cists, members of the posed, printed and issued by Ish political and will concern itself vrith Union," started to Inspect th*; .admits are a problem." •Yahudi," were circulated in Paris and the task of organizing Jewish women Mr. Merezhin declared the he sees sent to the editorial offices of Jewish the world ever for participation in the ports of the Jewish pas&ersby in the Korno suburb, Slohotka. The followBira-Bidjan as the only solution r to newspapers, calling for "historic ac- Palestine upbuilding work. ing tactics were applied. this problem. He estimates that the tion." The anonymous i pamphleteer When the Women's World Zionist After inspecting the document*, million unemployed. are comprised- of describes Zionism as "a. false Mes65,000 (families of tailors and shoe- siah,"_ asserting that "Zionism has Congress is held two years hence, fol- they told the Jews to run. Knowing makers, 90,000 former tradersi 24,000 died because it could not live up to the lowing the constitution of the extend- beforehand thet if they ran they would declassed and 135,000 families in var- magnificence of the Balfour Declara- ed Jewish Agency to include non- be shot, the Jews did not move. The Zionists, Mrs. Freiman declared she is Fascists then started beating them ,ious categories. tion." confident that it will be able to count with heavy sticks and rifle butts. > Mr. Merezhin further declares that The author, apparently a religious on a similar agency constituted by Only & few steps away the policemen he firmly believes Larin's idea of a fanatic, quotes the Pentateuch comwomen representative of all groups, were watching the hooligans and Jewish republic in Crimea is stubborn mandment: "Set a king over you" parties and orientations. "The Jewisli when the battered Jews were finally blindness, in the meantime harming and urges the Zionist Congress, then Agency removes Palestine from the released, the policemen gave them ail Bira-Bidjan. in session in Zurich, to declare Baron field of party activities and makes it additional beating. Within one and Edmund de Rothschild, benefactor of a cause in which all Jews must share. one-half hours, 65 Jews, including the early Palestine colonists, "King of No women who is alive to the respon- tnany prominent Slobotka Jewish citiY. P, Z. TO ELECT sibility she owes toward her people zens, among wfcom was the son of the NATIONAL DELEGATE theHeJews." farther suggested 'the appoint- can abstain from participation in this local Kosh Yenhiva, were murderously beaten and tortured. The Young Poale Zion will hold ment of a Sanhedrin to "negotiate understanding," she said. ' a special meeting Friday evening,1 with His Brittanic Majesty regarding Because of the state of Bi'ege prc* August 16, at the Labor Lyceum in all Palestineian matters." The San- 14 FA.RON GIRLS AT vailing in Lithuania, which does not order to elect a delegate to represent hedrin is to consist of 72 members, permit eny activities in the street* CAMP BREWSTER after the local group at the national con- •who are all to reside in Palestine, he one o'clock, the seriously wound. vention of the organization to be suggests. Fourteen members of the Fa-Hon ed could not be taken to a hOBp5t»1j held in Washington, D. C-, from sorority will spend the week-end" at and throughout the night <8*ite U The world is a looking glass, and Camp Brewster. Hiking, tennis, arch- moans were heard from almost August SO to September 2. Irvin Soiref, secretary of the club, gives back to every man the refiec^ery and swimming are among the Jewish house. The next morning th* majority of the wounded wet? taken will deliver an address on Tisha ticn of his own face. Frown at it many sports they will enjoy. and it will in tntn look,.sourly^ upon Saturday evening, August 17, the to the hospital. Others, with broken B'ov. The next dance of the organization you; laugh at it and with it, and it group will go on a midnight hike and hands, lacerated faces and blood[swimming party, and will return home stained clothing arrivpH in Korno will be held September 8 at Keep's is a jolly kind companion. »eeking medical aid. •" —Thackeray. J Sunday evening. Dancing academy.
JEWISH COMMUNISTS fflRUSSIA INTENSITY ATTACKS ON ZIONISM
WOMEN*S WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS TO BE CALLED HEH YEAR IN PALESTINE
URGES ROTHSCHILD AS "KING OF JEWS"